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.
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.
INTERJECTION:
FAREWELL TO! adieu to! good riddance.
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
