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Lost

adjective

1.

No longer in your possession or control; unable to be found or recovered. "Lost friends" , "His lost book" , "Lost opportunities"

2.

Having lost your bearings; confused as to time or place or personal identity. Synonyms: confused, disoriented. "The anesthetic left her completely disoriented"

3.

Spiritually or physically doomed or destroyed. "A lost generation" , "A lost ship" , "The lost platoon"

4.

Not gained or won. "A lost prize"

5.

Incapable of being recovered or regained.

6.

Not caught with the senses or the mind. Synonym: missed.

7.

Deeply absorbed in thought. Synonyms: bemused, deep in thought, preoccupied. "Lost in thought" , "A preoccupied frown"

8.

Perplexed by many conflicting situations or statements; filled with bewilderment. Synonyms: at sea, baffled, befuddled, bemused, bewildered, confounded, confused, mazed, mixed-up. "Bewildered and confused" , "A cloudy and confounded philosopher" , "Just a mixed-up kid" , "She felt lost on the first day of school"

9.

Unable to function; without help. Synonym: helpless.

noun

1.

People who are destined to die soon. Synonym: doomed.

Lose

verb

(past & past part. lost; pres. part. losing)

1.

Fail to keep or to maintain; cease to have, either physically or in an abstract sense.

2.

Fail to win.

3.

Suffer the loss of a person through death or removal. "The couple that wanted to adopt the child lost her when the biological parents claimed her"

4.

Place (something) where one cannot find it again. Synonyms: mislay, misplace.

5.

Miss from one's possessions; lose sight of.

6.

Allow to go out of sight.

7.

Fail to make money in a business; make a loss or fail to profit. Synonym: turn a loss. "The company turned a loss after the first year"

8.

Fail to get or obtain.

9.

Retreat. Synonyms: drop off, fall back, fall behind, recede.

10.

Fail to perceive or to catch with the senses or the mind. Synonym: miss. "She missed his point" , "We lost part of what he said"

11.

Be set at a disadvantage. Synonym: suffer.

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... Opposition as the appropriate place for a party which is always more usefully employed in representing the people than in exercising the functions of Government. Sixty years elapsed before the Whigs recovered the ground which they had lost under the Ministry ...

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... whom he formed into a square, he continued fighting from sunrise till midday, when he had expended all his ammunition. Bonaparte, at length, informed of his perilous situation, advanced to his support with six hundred soldiers; at the sight of whom the enemy, after having lost several thousands in killed and wounded, commenced a hurried retreat, in the course of which many of them were drowned in the River Daboury, at that time, like another Kishon, overflowing its banks. In a word, the champaign country which stretches north-west from Tabor has been ...

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... owner's name," I said, still affecting not to have noticed her alarm and apprehension. "The vessel ran aground at the Meloria, a dangerous shoal outside Leghorn, and through the stupidity of her captain was very nearly lost." ...

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... finish—letters which were passed from hand to hand and read aloud in large and small assemblies. They presented the news and the comment it inspired. In these old and generous letters, which antedate the railroad and the telegraph, critics have discovered one of the most delicate and informing of the lost arts—the epistolary. But to the average hand, wearied by heavy tools, the lightsome goose quill, committing its owner to dubious spelling and clumsy penmanship, and exposing the interior of his intellect, was a dreaded thing. When old Black Hawk signed a treaty he was wont to say that he ...

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