Definitions For Lose

verb

  • Be set at a disadvantage
  • Withdraw, as from reality
  • Fail to win
  • Suffer the loss of a person through death or removal
  • Fail to perceive or to catch with the senses or the mind
  • Allow to go out of sight or mind
  • Miss from one's possessions; lose sight of
  • Fail to keep or to maintain; cease to have, either physically or in an abstract sense
  • Fail to get or obtain
  • Fail to make money in a business; make a loss or fail to profit
  • To be unable to find (something or someone)
  • To fail to win (a game, contest, etc.)
  • To fail to keep or hold (something wanted or valued)

Is Lose a Scrabble Word?

Words With Friends YES
Scrabble US YES
Scrabble UK YES
English International (SOWPODS) YES
Scrabble Global YES
Enable1 Dictionary YES

Points in Different Games

Scrabble
4
Words with Friends
5

The word Lose is worth 4 points in Scrabble and 5 points in Words with Friends

Examples of Lose in a Sentence

  • She's always losing her gloves.
  • Hold my hand: I don't want to lose you.
  • We lost the game by a score of 4–2.

Synonyms for Lose

Antonyms for Lose

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