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lose

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You might be confusing the word lose with loose. These words are commonly misused.

lose is one of the 1000 most common headwords.
lord - lose - lot

Pronunciation

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Verb

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Plain form
lose

Third-person singular
loses

Past tense
lost

Past participle
lost

Present participle
losing

  1. (transitive) When you lose something, you don't know where it is.
    The boy lost his book some place between home and school.
    The man has lost his keys and was locked out of the house.
  2. (transitive) In games, you lose when others do better than you.
    He lost the card game because he didn't know the rules.

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