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Lose time

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  1. 1
    To run slow and not keep accurate time.
  2. 2
    To fall behind schedule.

    "On the third day the train lost time more and more. She raged with painful impatience. No good, at every station the train sat longer."

  3. 3
    To waste time.

    "Possibly I might be blamed a bit for my truantry, but the recapture of the Hispaniola was a clenching answer, and I hoped that even Captain Smollett would confess I had not lost my time."

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