lost
verb
[ lɒst ]
• past and past participle of lose.
lost
adjective
• unable to find one's way; not knowing one's whereabouts.
• "Help! We're lost!"
Similar:
stray,
astray,
off-course,
off-track,
off the right track,
disorientated,
disoriented,
having lost one's bearings,
adrift,
going round in circles,
at sea,
• that has been taken away or cannot be recovered.
• "if only one could recapture one's lost youth"
Similar:
bygone,
past,
former,
one-time,
previous,
old,
olden,
departed,
vanished,
forgotten,
unremembered,
unrecalled,
consigned to oblivion,
extinct,
dead,
lost and gone,
lost in time,
out of date,
outmoded,
passé,
• (of a game or contest) in which a defeat has been sustained.
• "the lost election of 1979"
lose
verb
• be deprived of or cease to have or retain (something).
• "I've lost my appetite"
Similar:
be deprived of,
suffer the loss of,
no longer have,
stop having,
• become unable to find (something or someone).
• "I've lost the car keys"
Similar:
mislay,
misplace,
be unable to find,
drop,
forget,
overlook,
lose track of,
leave (behind),
fail to keep/retain,
fail to keep sight of,
• fail to win (a game or contest).
• "England lost the first Test match"
Similar:
be defeated,
be beaten,
suffer defeat,
be the loser,
be conquered,
be vanquished,
be trounced,
be worsted,
be bested by,
get/have the worst,
come off second-best,
lose out,
fail,
come to grief,
meet one's Waterloo,
come a cropper,
go down,
take a licking,
• earn less (money) than one is spending or has spent.
• "the paper is losing £1.5 million a month"
• waste or fail to take advantage of (time or an opportunity).
• "he has lost his chance of becoming world No. 1"
Similar:
neglect,
waste,
squander,
fail to grasp,
fail to take,
fail to take advantage of,
let pass,
miss,
forfeit,
give up,
ignore,
disregard,
pass up,
lose out on,
Origin:
Old English losian ‘perish, destroy’, also ‘become unable to find’, from los ‘loss’.
get lost
• go away (used as an expression of anger or impatience).
• "Why don't you leave me alone? Go on, get lost!"
Similar:
go away,
go,
leave,
depart,
get going,
get out,
be off with you,
shoo,
scram,
be on your way,
run along,
beat it,
skedaddle,
split,
vamoose,
scat,
push off,
buzz off,
shove off,
clear off,
go (and) jump in the lake,
hop it,
bog off,
naff off,
on your bike,
get along,
sling your hook,
bug off,
light out,
haul off,
haul ass,
take a powder,
hit the trail,
take a hike,
nick off,
rack off,
voetsak,
hamba,
begone,
avaunt,
piss off,
fuck off,
sod off,
bugger off,
