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Lost

adjective

1.

No longer in your possession or control; unable to be found or recovered. "Lost friends" , "His lost book" , "Lost opportunities"

2.

Having lost your bearings; confused as to time or place or personal identity. Synonyms: confused, disoriented. "The anesthetic left her completely disoriented"

3.

Spiritually or physically doomed or destroyed. "A lost generation" , "A lost ship" , "The lost platoon"

4.

Not gained or won. "A lost prize"

5.

Incapable of being recovered or regained.

6.

Not caught with the senses or the mind. Synonym: missed.

7.

Deeply absorbed in thought. Synonyms: bemused, deep in thought, preoccupied. "Lost in thought" , "A preoccupied frown"

8.

Perplexed by many conflicting situations or statements; filled with bewilderment. Synonyms: at sea, baffled, befuddled, bemused, bewildered, confounded, confused, mazed, mixed-up. "Bewildered and confused" , "A cloudy and confounded philosopher" , "Just a mixed-up kid" , "She felt lost on the first day of school"

9.

Unable to function; without help. Synonym: helpless.

noun

1.

People who are destined to die soon. Synonym: doomed.

Lose

verb

(past & past part. lost; pres. part. losing)

1.

Fail to keep or to maintain; cease to have, either physically or in an abstract sense.

2.

Fail to win.

3.

Suffer the loss of a person through death or removal. "The couple that wanted to adopt the child lost her when the biological parents claimed her"

4.

Place (something) where one cannot find it again. Synonyms: mislay, misplace.

5.

Miss from one's possessions; lose sight of.

6.

Allow to go out of sight.

7.

Fail to make money in a business; make a loss or fail to profit. Synonym: turn a loss. "The company turned a loss after the first year"

8.

Fail to get or obtain.

9.

Retreat. Synonyms: drop off, fall back, fall behind, recede.

10.

Fail to perceive or to catch with the senses or the mind. Synonym: miss. "She missed his point" , "We lost part of what he said"

11.

Be set at a disadvantage. Synonym: suffer.

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"Lost" Quotes from Famous Books

... Mirabeau, the last defender of the monarchy, since the failure of the contemplated flight, royalty in France had no chance of existence left; the throne had lost every prop upon which it could find support, and it sank more and more into the abyss which the revolution had dug under ...

— The Empress Josephine • Louise Muhlbach

... happiness could possibly be enjoyed: men of every other kind I was taught to govern, but a wit was an animal for whom no arts of taming had been yet discovered: the woman whom he could once get within his power, was considered as lost to all hope of dominion or of quiet: for he would detect artifice and defeat allurement; and if once he discovered any failure of conduct, would believe his own eyes, in defiance ...

— The Works of Samuel Johnson in Nine Volumes - Volume IV: The Adventurer; The Idler • Samuel Johnson

... to wait; and that is almost as crucial a test of greatness as courage itself. Many a battle has been lost by over-eagerness. There was the greatness of Fate itself in the order of the American officer of the Revolution who said, "Wait, men, until you see the whites of ...

— The Young Man and the World • Albert J. Beveridge

... down into the snow, and sleep there, but I don't see why those two went to bed so late after the storm was over. Something must have disturbed them. If I hadn't the racket to clap over the place, I should have lost him. I learned that trick ...

— Ben Comee - A Tale of Rogers's Rangers, 1758-59 • M. J. (Michael Joseph) Canavan

... voice as it lingered on his name. The familiar gesture accompanied the words, the old charm did assert itself, and for an instant changed the cold woman into the ardent girl again. Gilbert did not go but, with a hasty glance down the deserted hall behind him, captured and kissed the hand he had lost, passionately whispering, "Pauline, I love you still, and that look assures me that you have forgiven, forgotten, and kept a place for me in that deep heart of yours. It is too late to deny it. I have seen the tender eyes again, and the sight has made me the proudest, happiest man ...

— Pauline's Passion and Punishment • Louisa May Alcott

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