I don't want to lose my ideas, even though some of them are a bit extreme.
Source: tatoeba (1377)
Lose
//luːz//
Synonyms for "lose" (121 found)
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Closest matches (25)
Strong matches (36)
Related words (60)
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6 entriesRelated terms
4 entriesderived
79 entriesShowing 16 of 79 words.
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6 entriesentails
1 entrieshas subevent
1 entriesmanner of
2 entriesrelated to
65 entriesShowing 16 of 65 words.
similar
1 entriesTranslations
443 translations across 132 languages.
Afrikaans
1 entries- verloor verb (cease to have in one's possession or capability)
Albanian
2 entries- humb verb (cease to have in one's possession or capability)
- humbas verb (cease to have in one's possession or capability)
Arabic
4 entries- خسر verb ((transitive) be a defeated competitor in)
- خَسِرَ verb (cease to have in one's possession or capability)
- خَسِرَ verb ((transitive) be a defeated competitor in)
- خَسِرَ verb ((intransitive) be defeated)
Armenian
3 entries- կորցնել verb (cease to have in one's possession or capability)
- կրվել verb ((transitive) be a defeated competitor in)
- պարտվել verb ((transitive) be a defeated competitor in)
Aromanian
1 entries- cherdu verb (cease to have in one's possession or capability)
Assamese
3 entries- হাৰা verb ((transitive) be a defeated competitor in)
- হেৰোৱা verb (cease to have in one's possession or capability)
- হৰা verb ((transitive) be a defeated competitor in)
Asturian
3 entries- perder verb (cease to have in one's possession or capability)
- perder verb ((transitive) be a defeated competitor in)
- perder verb ((intransitive) be defeated)
Azerbaijani
4 entries- itirmək verb (cease to have in one's possession or capability)
- məğlub olmaq verb ((transitive) be a defeated competitor in)
- uduzmaq verb (cease to have in one's possession or capability)
- uduzmaq verb ((transitive) be a defeated competitor in)
Bashkir
1 entries- юғалтыу verb (cease to have in one's possession or capability)
Basque
4 entries- galdu verb (cease to have in one's possession or capability)
- galdu verb (shed (weight))
- galdu verb ((transitive) be a defeated competitor in)
- galdu verb ((intransitive) be defeated)
Belarusian
4 entries- губля́ць verb (cease to have in one's possession or capability)
- губі́ць verb (cease to have in one's possession or capability)
- згубі́ць verb (cease to have in one's possession or capability)
- прага́дваць verb ((intransitive) be defeated)
Belizean Creole
1 entries- laas verb (cease to have in one's possession or capability)
Bengali
4 entries- হারা verb ((transitive) be a defeated competitor in)
- হারা verb ((intransitive) be defeated)
- হারানো verb (cease to have in one's possession or capability)
- হারানো verb (experience the death of (someone to whom one has an attachment, such as a relative or friend))
Bhojpuri
1 entries- हेराइल verb (cease to have in one's possession or capability)
Bulgarian
4 entries- гу́бя verb (cease to have in one's possession or capability)
- гу́бя verb (experience the death of (someone to whom one has an attachment, such as a relative or friend))
- гу́бя verb ((transitive) be a defeated competitor in)
- гу́бя се verb (be unable to follow or trace (somebody or something) any longer)
Burmese
4 entries- ပျက် verb (cease to have in one's possession or capability)
- ပျောက် verb (cease to have in one's possession or capability)
- ပြုတ် verb (cease to have in one's possession or capability)
- ရှုံး verb ((transitive) be a defeated competitor in)
Catalan
3 entries- perdre verb (cease to have in one's possession or capability)
- perdre verb ((transitive) be a defeated competitor in)
- perdre verb ((intransitive) be defeated)
Central Kurdish
2 entries- بزر کردن verb (cease to have in one's possession or capability)
- دۆڕاندن verb ((transitive) be a defeated competitor in)
Chechen
1 entries- иеша verb (cease to have in one's possession or capability)
Cherokee
1 entries- ᎤᏲᎱᏎᎭ verb (cease to have in one's possession or capability)
Chinese
1 entries- дю verb (cease to have in one's possession or capability)
Chinese Cantonese
4 entries- 丟 /丢 verb (cease to have in one's possession or capability)
- 冇咗 verb (cease to have in one's possession or capability)
- 減 /减 verb (shed (weight))
- 輸 /输 verb ((transitive) be a defeated competitor in)
Chinese Mandarin
4 entries- 丟 /丢 verb (cease to have in one's possession or capability)
- 失去 verb (cease to have in one's possession or capability)
- 減 /减 verb (shed (weight))
- 減肥 /减肥 verb (shed (weight))
Chuukese
2 entries- kuf verb ((transitive) be a defeated competitor in)
- poutano verb (cease to have in one's possession or capability)
Cornish
1 entries- kelli verb (cease to have in one's possession or capability)
Crimean Tatar
1 entries- coytmaq verb (cease to have in one's possession or capability)
Czech
4 entries- prohrát verb ((transitive) be a defeated competitor in)
- prohrát verb ((intransitive) be defeated)
- prohrávat verb ((transitive) be a defeated competitor in)
- prohrávat verb ((intransitive) be defeated)
Dalmatian
1 entries- piardro verb (cease to have in one's possession or capability)
Danish
4 entries- miste verb (cease to have in one's possession or capability)
- tabe verb (cease to have in one's possession or capability)
- tabe verb (shed (weight))
- tabe verb ((transitive) be a defeated competitor in)
Dutch
4 entries- afvallen verb (shed (weight))
- verliezen verb (cease to have in one's possession or capability)
- verliezen verb (experience the death of (someone to whom one has an attachment, such as a relative or friend))
- verliezen verb ((transitive) be a defeated competitor in)
Esperanto
2 entries- malgajni verb (cease to have in one's possession or capability)
- perdi verb (cease to have in one's possession or capability)
Estonian
1 entries- kaotama verb (cease to have in one's possession or capability)
Faroese
1 entries- missa verb (cease to have in one's possession or capability)
Finnish
4 entries- hävitä verb ((transitive) be a defeated competitor in)
- hävitä verb ((intransitive) be defeated)
- kadottaa verb (be unable to follow or trace (somebody or something) any longer)
- menettää verb (cease to have in one's possession or capability)
French
4 entries- enlever verb (informal: shed, remove, discard, eliminate)
- perdre verb (cease to have in one's possession or capability)
- perdre verb (shed (weight))
- perdre verb (experience the death of (someone to whom one has an attachment, such as a relative or friend))
Friulian
1 entries- pierdi verb (cease to have in one's possession or capability)
Galician
4 entries- peder verb (experience the death of (someone to whom one has an attachment, such as a relative or friend))
- perder verb (cease to have in one's possession or capability)
- perder verb (shed (weight))
- perder verb ((transitive) be a defeated competitor in)
Georgian
1 entries- დაკარგვა verb (cease to have in one's possession or capability)
German
4 entries- abnehmen verb (shed (weight))
- loswerden verb (informal: shed, remove, discard, eliminate)
- verlieren verb (cease to have in one's possession or capability)
- verlieren verb (shed (weight))
Gheg Albanian
1 entries- hup verb (cease to have in one's possession or capability)
Gothic
1 entries- 𐍆𐍂𐌰𐌻𐌹𐌿𐍃𐌰𐌽 verb (cease to have in one's possession or capability)
Greek
4 entries- αδυνατίζω verb (shed (weight))
- ηττώμαι verb ((transitive) be a defeated competitor in)
- ηττώμαι verb ((intransitive) be defeated)
- χάνω verb (cease to have in one's possession or capability)
Haitian Creole
1 entries- pèdi verb (cease to have in one's possession or capability)
Hebrew
3 entries- אִבֵּד verb (cease to have in one's possession or capability)
- הִפְסִיד verb ((transitive) be a defeated competitor in)
- הִפְסִיד verb ((intransitive) be defeated)
Hindi
3 entries- खोना verb (cease to have in one's possession or capability)
- खोना verb ((transitive) be a defeated competitor in)
- हारना verb ((transitive) be a defeated competitor in)
Hungarian
4 entries- elhagy verb (cease to have in one's possession or capability)
- elveszít verb (cease to have in one's possession or capability)
- veszít verb ((transitive) be a defeated competitor in)
- veszít verb ((intransitive) be defeated)
Icelandic
2 entries- tapa verb ((transitive) be a defeated competitor in)
- týna verb (cease to have in one's possession or capability)
Ido
2 entries- perdar verb (cease to have in one's possession or capability)
- perdar verb ((transitive) be a defeated competitor in)
Ilocano
2 entries- iwagat verb (cease to have in one's possession or capability)
- wagat verb (cease to have in one's possession or capability)
Indonesian
2 entries- hilang verb (cease to have in one's possession or capability)
- kalah verb ((transitive) be a defeated competitor in)
Irish
1 entries- caill verb (cease to have in one's possession or capability)
Isnag
1 entries- waxa verb (cease to have in one's possession or capability)
Istro-Romanian
1 entries- pľerde verb (cease to have in one's possession or capability)
Italian
4 entries- perdere verb (cease to have in one's possession or capability)
- perdere verb (shed (weight))
- perdere verb (experience the death of (someone to whom one has an attachment, such as a relative or friend))
- perdere verb ((transitive) be a defeated competitor in)
Japanese
4 entries- なくす verb (cease to have in one's possession or capability)
- 亡くす verb (experience the death of (someone to whom one has an attachment, such as a relative or friend))
- 失う verb (cease to have in one's possession or capability)
- 敗北する verb ((transitive) be a defeated competitor in)
Kashmiri
2 entries- راوُن verb (cease to have in one's possession or capability)
- ہارُن verb ((transitive) be a defeated competitor in)
Kazakh
1 entries- жоғалту verb (cease to have in one's possession or capability)
Khiamniungan Naga
1 entries- ūi verb (cease to have in one's possession or capability)
Khmer
2 entries- ចាញ់ verb ((transitive) be a defeated competitor in)
- បាត់ verb (cease to have in one's possession or capability)
Korean
4 entries- 살이 빠지다 verb (shed (weight))
- 여위다 verb (shed (weight))
- 잃다 verb (cease to have in one's possession or capability)
- 지다 verb ((transitive) be a defeated competitor in)
Kyrgyz
1 entries- жоготуу verb (cease to have in one's possession or capability)
Ladin
1 entries- perde verb (cease to have in one's possession or capability)
Ladino
3 entries- pedrer verb (cease to have in one's possession or capability)
- peryer verb (cease to have in one's possession or capability)
- piedrer verb (cease to have in one's possession or capability)
Lao
2 entries- ເສຍ verb (cease to have in one's possession or capability)
- ແພ້ verb ((transitive) be a defeated competitor in)
Latgalian
2 entries- gaisynuot verb (cease to have in one's possession or capability)
- pagaisynuot verb (cease to have in one's possession or capability)
Latin
4 entries- amitto verb (shed (weight))
- amitto verb (experience the death of (someone to whom one has an attachment, such as a relative or friend))
- amitto verb (be unable to follow or trace (somebody or something) any longer)
- deerro verb (be unable to follow or trace (somebody or something) any longer)
Latvian
3 entries- pazaudēt verb (cease to have in one's possession or capability)
- zaudēt verb (cease to have in one's possession or capability)
- zaudēt verb ((transitive) be a defeated competitor in)
Lingala
1 entries- bungisa verb (cease to have in one's possession or capability)
Lithuanian
2 entries- netèkti verb (cease to have in one's possession or capability)
- praràsti verb (cease to have in one's possession or capability)
Livonian
1 entries- kōtõ verb (cease to have in one's possession or capability)
Lombard
2 entries- perd verb (cease to have in one's possession or capability)
- pèrd verb (cease to have in one's possession or capability)
Low German
1 entries- verlesen verb (cease to have in one's possession or capability)
Luxembourgish
1 entries- verléieren verb (cease to have in one's possession or capability)
Macedonian
4 entries- губи verb (cease to have in one's possession or capability)
- губи verb ((transitive) be a defeated competitor in)
- изгуби verb (cease to have in one's possession or capability)
- изгуби verb ((transitive) be a defeated competitor in)
Malay
1 entries- hilang verb (cease to have in one's possession or capability)
Maltese
1 entries- tilef verb (cease to have in one's possession or capability)
Mauritian Creole
1 entries- perdi verb (cease to have in one's possession or capability)
Mongolian
1 entries- алдах verb (cease to have in one's possession or capability)
Navajo
1 entries- honinééh verb ((intransitive) be defeated)
Nepali
2 entries- गुमाउनु verb (cease to have in one's possession or capability)
- हार्नु verb ((transitive) be a defeated competitor in)
North Frisian
2 entries- ferlees verb (cease to have in one's possession or capability)
- ferliise verb (cease to have in one's possession or capability)
Northern Kurdish
2 entries- ji dest dan verb (cease to have in one's possession or capability)
- winda kirin verb (cease to have in one's possession or capability)
Norwegian Bokmål
2 entries- miste verb (cease to have in one's possession or capability)
- tape verb ((transitive) be a defeated competitor in)
Occitan
2 entries- pèrder verb (cease to have in one's possession or capability)
- pèrdre verb (cease to have in one's possession or capability)
Old English
1 entries- forlēosan verb (cease to have in one's possession or capability)
Old Frisian
1 entries- forliasa verb (cease to have in one's possession or capability)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- یانمق verb ((intransitive) be defeated)
Persian
4 entries- از دست دادن verb (experience the death of (someone to whom one has an attachment, such as a relative or friend))
- باختن verb ((transitive) be a defeated competitor in)
- دور انداختن verb (informal: shed, remove, discard, eliminate)
- زدودن verb (informal: shed, remove, discard, eliminate)
Piedmontese
1 entries- perde verb (cease to have in one's possession or capability)
Pohnpeian
1 entries- luhs verb ((transitive) be a defeated competitor in)
Polish
4 entries- gubić verb (cease to have in one's possession or capability)
- przegrać verb ((transitive) be a defeated competitor in)
- przegrać verb ((intransitive) be defeated)
- przegrywać verb ((transitive) be a defeated competitor in)
Portuguese
4 entries- emagrecer verb (shed (weight))
- perder verb (cease to have in one's possession or capability)
- perder verb (shed (weight))
- perder verb (experience the death of (someone to whom one has an attachment, such as a relative or friend))
Quechua
4 entries- chinkachiy verb (cease to have in one's possession or capability)
- chinkachiy verb ((transitive) be a defeated competitor in)
- chinkay verb (cease to have in one's possession or capability)
- cinkai verb (cease to have in one's possession or capability)
Romanian
2 entries- pierde verb (cease to have in one's possession or capability)
- pierde verb ((transitive) be a defeated competitor in)
Romansch
3 entries- pearder verb (cease to have in one's possession or capability)
- perder verb (cease to have in one's possession or capability)
- piarder verb (cease to have in one's possession or capability)
Russian
4 entries- нерадеть verb (be unable to follow or trace (somebody or something) any longer)
- потеря́ть verb (cease to have in one's possession or capability)
- потеря́ть verb (experience the death of (someone to whom one has an attachment, such as a relative or friend))
- потеря́ть verb (be unable to follow or trace (somebody or something) any longer)
Samoan
2 entries- faia'ina verb ((transitive) be a defeated competitor in)
- vāivai verb (cease to have in one's possession or capability)
Sardinian
4 entries- peldere verb (cease to have in one's possession or capability)
- peldiri verb (cease to have in one's possession or capability)
- perdere verb (cease to have in one's possession or capability)
- perdiri verb (cease to have in one's possession or capability)
Scots
4 entries- loss verb (experience the death of (someone to whom one has an attachment, such as a relative or friend))
- loss verb ((transitive) be a defeated competitor in)
- loss verb ((intransitive) be defeated)
- tyne verb (cease to have in one's possession or capability)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- caill verb (cease to have in one's possession or capability)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- gùbiti verb (cease to have in one's possession or capability)
- gùbiti verb ((transitive) be a defeated competitor in)
- izgùbiti verb (cease to have in one's possession or capability)
- izgùbiti verb ((transitive) be a defeated competitor in)
Seychellois Creole
1 entries- perdi verb (cease to have in one's possession or capability)
Sicilian
1 entries- peddiri verb (cease to have in one's possession or capability)
Slovak
4 entries- prehrať verb ((transitive) be a defeated competitor in)
- prehrať verb ((intransitive) be defeated)
- prehrávať verb ((transitive) be a defeated competitor in)
- prohrávať verb ((intransitive) be defeated)
Slovene
4 entries- izgubiti verb (cease to have in one's possession or capability)
- izgubiti verb (shed (weight))
- izgubiti verb (experience the death of (someone to whom one has an attachment, such as a relative or friend))
- izgubiti verb ((transitive) be a defeated competitor in)
Somali
1 entries- lumid verb (cease to have in one's possession or capability)
Southern Altai
1 entries- јоголтор verb (cease to have in one's possession or capability)
Spanish
4 entries- bajar (de peso) verb (shed (weight))
- fracasar verb ((intransitive) be defeated)
- perder verb (cease to have in one's possession or capability)
- perder verb (shed (weight))
Swedish
4 entries- bliva av med verb (cease to have in one's possession or capability)
- förlora verb (cease to have in one's possession or capability)
- förlora verb (experience the death of (someone to whom one has an attachment, such as a relative or friend))
- förlora verb ((transitive) be a defeated competitor in)
Sylheti
1 entries- ꠀꠞꠣꠘꠤ verb (cease to have in one's possession or capability)
Tagalog
1 entries- mamatayan verb (experience the death of (someone to whom one has an attachment, such as a relative or friend))
Tajik
2 entries- бохтан verb ((transitive) be a defeated competitor in)
- гум кардан verb (cease to have in one's possession or capability)
Tamil
4 entries- இழ verb (cease to have in one's possession or capability)
- இழ verb (experience the death of (someone to whom one has an attachment, such as a relative or friend))
- உதிர் verb (informal: shed, remove, discard, eliminate)
- கழற்று verb (informal: shed, remove, discard, eliminate)
Tatar
1 entries- югалту verb (cease to have in one's possession or capability)
Telugu
3 entries- ఓడిపోవు verb ((intransitive) be defeated)
- కోల్పోవు verb (cease to have in one's possession or capability)
- కోల్పోవు verb (experience the death of (someone to whom one has an attachment, such as a relative or friend))
Tetum
2 entries- lakon verb (cease to have in one's possession or capability)
- lakon verb ((transitive) be a defeated competitor in)
Thai
4 entries- พ่าย verb ((transitive) be a defeated competitor in)
- ลด verb (shed (weight))
- หลง verb (be unable to follow or trace (somebody or something) any longer)
- เสีย verb (cease to have in one's possession or capability)
Tibetan
2 entries- བརླགས verb (cease to have in one's possession or capability)
- ཤོར verb ((transitive) be a defeated competitor in)
Tok Pisin
1 entries- lusim verb (cease to have in one's possession or capability)
Tongan
2 entries- foʻi verb ((transitive) be a defeated competitor in)
- mole verb (cease to have in one's possession or capability)
Turkish
4 entries- gözden kaçırmak verb (be unable to follow or trace (somebody or something) any longer)
- kaybetmek verb (cease to have in one's possession or capability)
- kaybetmek verb ((transitive) be a defeated competitor in)
- kaybetmek verb ((intransitive) be defeated)
Turkmen
1 entries- ýitirmek verb (cease to have in one's possession or capability)
Ukrainian
4 entries- втра́тити verb (cease to have in one's possession or capability)
- втрача́ти verb (cease to have in one's possession or capability)
- губи́ти verb (cease to have in one's possession or capability)
- загуби́ти verb (cease to have in one's possession or capability)
Urdu
2 entries- کھونا verb (cease to have in one's possession or capability)
- کھونا verb ((transitive) be a defeated competitor in)
Uyghur
2 entries- يوقاتماق verb (cease to have in one's possession or capability)
- يوقالماق verb (cease to have in one's possession or capability)
Uzbek
1 entries- yoʻqotmoq verb (cease to have in one's possession or capability)
Venetan
4 entries- pèrdar verb (cease to have in one's possession or capability)
- pèrdar verb (shed (weight))
- pèrdar verb ((transitive) be a defeated competitor in)
- pèrdar verb ((intransitive) be defeated)
Vietnamese
4 entries- băng hà verb (experience the death of (someone to whom one has an attachment, such as a relative or friend))
- mất verb (cease to have in one's possession or capability)
- mất verb (experience the death of (someone to whom one has an attachment, such as a relative or friend))
- thua verb ((transitive) be a defeated competitor in)
Walloon
1 entries- piede verb (cease to have in one's possession or capability)
Welsh
1 entries- colli verb (cease to have in one's possession or capability)
West-Frisian
1 entries- ferlieze verb (cease to have in one's possession or capability)
Yiddish
1 entries- פֿאַרלירן verb (cease to have in one's possession or capability)
Sample sentences
44 total sentences available.
It's too bad that I don't need to lose weight.
Source: tatoeba (1428)
The key question is not what can I gain but what do I have to lose.
Source: tatoeba (1745)
You made me lose my mind.
Source: tatoeba (1821)
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