Usually means: To fail at achieving something.
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We found 42 dictionaries that define the word lose:

General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. lose: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. lose: Merriam-Webster
  3. lose: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. lose: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. lose: Collins English Dictionary
  6. lose: Vocabulary.com
  7. Lose, lose: Wordnik
  8. lose: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. lose: Wiktionary
  10. lose: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. lose: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. lose: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. lose: Dictionary.com
  14. lose: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. lose: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. LOSE (Cymbals Eat Guitars album), LOSE, Lose (Cymbals Eat Guitars album), Lose: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Lose: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. lose: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. lose: Rhymezone
  20. lose: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. lose: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. Lose: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  23. lose: FreeDictionary.org
  24. lose: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. lose: TheFreeDictionary.com
  26. lose: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. lose: Legal dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. lose: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. lose: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. lose: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. lose: Sound Alike Words
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Sound-Alike Words (No longer online)
  3. LOSE: Acronym Finder
  4. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  5. lose: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. lose: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. lose, the lose: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Lose: Chess Dictionary

(Note: See losable as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive) To cause (something) to cease to be in one's possession or capability.
verb:  (transitive) To have (an organ) removed from one's body, especially by accident.
verb:  (transitive) To shed (weight).
verb:  (transitive) To experience the death of (someone to whom one has an attachment, such as a relative or friend).
verb:  (transitive) To pay or owe (some wager) due from an unsuccessful bet or gamble.
verb:  (transitive) To be deprived of (some right or privileged access to something).
verb:  To wander from; to miss, so as not to be able to find; to go astray from.
verb:  (transitive) To fail to win (a game, competition, trial, etc).
verb:  (transitive) To be unable to follow or trace (somebody or something) any longer.
verb:  (transitive) To cause (somebody) to be unable to follow or trace one any longer.
verb:  (transitive) To cease exhibiting; to overcome (a behavior or emotion).
verb:  (transitive, informal) To shed, remove, discard, or eliminate.
verb:  Of a clock, to run slower than expected.
verb:  (ditransitive) To cause (someone) the loss of something; to deprive of.
verb:  To fail to catch with the mind or senses; to miss.
noun:  A surname from German.
noun:  Alternative form of loos (“praise; fame; reputation”). [(obsolete) Praise; fame; reputation.]

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