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lost
[lɒst]
a. , 遗,
lose

[] 丢, 丧,



lost
[ noun ]

  1. people who are destined to die soon

  2. <noun.group>
    the agony of the doomed was in his voice
[ adj ]
  1. no longer in your possession or control; unable to be found or recovered

  2. <adj.all>
    a lost child
    lost friends
    his lost book
    lost opportunities
  3. spiritually or physically doomed or destroyed

  4. <adj.all>
    lost souls
    a lost generation
    a lost ship
    the lost platoon
  5. not gained or won

  6. <adj.all>
    a lost battle
    a lost prize
  7. having lost your bearings; confused as to time or place or personal identity

  8. <adj.all>
    I frequently find myself disoriented when I come up out of the subway
    the anesthetic left her completely disoriented
  9. incapable of being recovered or regained

  10. <adj.all>
    his lost honor
  11. not caught with the senses or the mind

  12. <adj.all>
    words lost in the din
  13. deeply absorbed in thought

  14. <adj.all>
    as distant and bemused as a professor listening to the prattling of his freshman class
    lost in thought
    a preoccupied frown
  15. perplexed by many conflicting situations or statements; filled with bewilderment

  16. <adj.all>
    obviously bemused by his questions
    bewildered and confused
    a cloudy and confounded philosopher
    just a mixed-up kid
    she felt lost on the first day of school
  17. unable to function; without help

  18. <adj.all>




Lose \Lose\ (l[=oo]z), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Lost} (l[o^]st; 115)
p. pr. & vb. n. {Losing} (l[=oo]z"[i^]ng).] [OE. losien to
loose, be lost, lose, AS. losian to become loose; akin to OE.
leosen to lose, p. p. loren, lorn, AS. le['o]san, p. p. loren
(in comp.), D. verliezen, G. verlieren, Dan. forlise, Sw.
f["o]rlisa, f["o]rlora, Goth. fraliusan, also to E. loose, a
& v., L. luere to loose, Gr. ly`ein, Skr. l[=u] to cut.
[root]127. Cf. {Analysis}, {Palsy}, {Solve}, {Forlorn},
{Leasing}, {Loose}, {Loss}.]
1. To part with unintentionally or unwillingly, as by
accident, misfortune, negligence, penalty, forfeit, etc.;
to be deprived of; as, to lose money from one's purse or
pocket, or in business or gaming; to lose an arm or a leg
by amputation; to lose men in battle.

Fair Venus wept the sad disaster
Of having lost her favorite dove. --Prior.

2. To cease to have; to possess no longer; to suffer
diminution of; as, to lose one's relish for anything; to
lose one's health.

If the salt hath lost his savor, wherewith shall it
be salted? --Matt. v. 13.

3. Not to employ; to employ ineffectually; to throw away; to
waste; to squander; as, to lose a day; to lose the
benefits of instruction.

The unhappy have but hours, and these they lose.
--Dryden.

4. To wander from; to miss, so as not to be able to and; to
go astray from; as, to lose one's way.

He hath lost his fellows. --Shak

5. To ruin; to destroy; as destroy; as, the ship was lost on
the ledge.

The woman that deliberates is lost. --Addison.

6. To be deprived of the view of; to cease to see or know the
whereabouts of; as, he lost his companion in the crowd.

Like following life thro' creatures you dissect,
You lose it in the moment you detect. --Pope.

7. To fail to obtain or enjoy; to fail to gain or win; hence,
to fail to catch with the mind or senses; to miss; as, I
lost a part of what he said.

He shall in no wise lose his reward. --Matt. x. 42.

I fought the battle bravely which I lost,
And lost it but to Macedonians. --Dryden.

8. To cause to part with; to deprive of. [R.]

How should you go about to lose him a wife he loves
with so much passion? --Sir W.
Temple.

9. To prevent from gaining or obtaining.

O false heart! thou hadst almost betrayed me to
eternal flames, and lost me this glory. --Baxter.

{To lose ground}, to fall behind; to suffer gradual loss or
disadvantage.

{To lose heart}, to lose courage; to become timid. ``The
mutineers lost heart.'' --Macaulay.

{To lose one's head}, to be thrown off one's balance; to lose
the use of one's good sense or judgment, through fear,
anger, or other emotion.

In the excitement of such a discovery, many scholars
lost their heads. --Whitney.

{To lose one's self}.
(a) To forget or mistake the bearing of surrounding
objects; as, to lose one's self in a great city.
(b) To have the perceptive and rational power temporarily
suspended; as, we lose ourselves in sleep.

{To lose sight of}.
(a) To cease to see; as, to lose sight of the land.
(b) To overlook; to forget; to fail to perceive; as, he
lost sight of the issue.


Lost \Lost\, a. [Prop. p. p. of OE. losien. See {Lose}, v. t.]
1. Parted with unwillingly or unintentionally; not to be
found; missing; as, a lost book or sheep.

2. Parted with; no longer held or possessed; as, a lost limb;
lost honor.

3. Not employed or enjoyed; thrown away; employed
ineffectually; wasted; squandered; as, a lost day; a lost
opportunity or benefit.

5. Having wandered from, or unable to find, the way;
bewildered; perplexed; as, a child lost in the woods; a
stranger lost in London.

6. Ruined or destroyed, either physically or morally; past
help or hope; as, a ship lost at sea; a woman lost to
virtue; a lost soul.

7. Hardened beyond sensibility or recovery; alienated;
insensible; as, lost to shame; lost to all sense of honor.

8. Not perceptible to the senses; no longer visible; as, an
island lost in a fog; a person lost in a crowd.

9. Occupied with, or under the influence of, something, so as
to be insensible of external things; as, to be lost in
thought.

{Lost motion} (Mach.), the difference between the motion of a
driver and that of a follower, due to the yielding of
parts or looseness of joints.