| Mawson, C.O.S., ed. (1870–1938). Roget’s International Thesaurus. 1922. |
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| Class V. Words Releasing to the Voluntary Powers | | Division (II) Intersocial Volition | | Section IV. Possessive Relations |
| 1. Property in general |
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| 776. Loss. |
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| NOUN: | LOSS, perdition, deperdition [archaic]; forfeiture, lapse.
privation, bereavement; deprivation (dispossession) [See Taking]; riddance; damage, squandering, waste.
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| VERB: | LOSE; incur -, experience -, meet with- a loss; miss; mislay, let slip, allow to slip through the fingers; be deprived of; be without (exempt) [See Possession]a; forfeit, pay with.
SQUANDER; get rid of [See Relinquishment]; waste [See Waste].
BE LOST, lapse.
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| ADJECTIVE: | LOSING &c. v.; not having [See Exemption]
DEPRIVED OF; shorn of, deperdite [rare], denuded, bereaved, bereft, minus [colloq., exc. in math.], cut off; dispossessed [See Taking]; rid of, quit of; out of pocket.
LOST &c. v.; long lost; irretrievable (hopeless) [See Hopelessness]; off one’s hands.
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| INTERJECTION: | FAREWELL TO! adieu to! good riddance. |
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| QUOTATIONS: | - Farewell! a long farewell, to all my greatness!—Henry VIII
- By losing rendered sager.—Byron
- All is lost save honor.—misquoted remark of Francis I
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