| loss | | |
| n. (possession) | 1. loss | something that is lost.; "the car was a total loss"; "loss of livestock left the rancher bankrupt" |
| ~ transferred possession, transferred property | a possession whose ownership changes or lapses. |
| ~ forfeit, forfeiture | something that is lost or surrendered as a penalty. |
| ~ financial loss | loss of money or decrease in financial value. |
| ~ sacrifice | a loss entailed by giving up or selling something at less than its value.; "he had to sell his car at a considerable sacrifice" |
| ~ wastage | anything lost by wear or waste. |
| n. (process) | 2. loss | gradual decline in amount or activity.; "weight loss"; "a serious loss of business" |
| ~ decline, diminution | change toward something smaller or lower. |
| ~ epilation | loss of hair; the result of removing hair. |
| ~ reducing | loss of excess weight (as by dieting); becoming slimmer.; "a doctor supervised her reducing" |
| n. (act) | 3. loss | the act of losing someone or something.; "everyone expected him to win so his loss was a shock" |
| ~ failure | an act that fails.; "his failure to pass the test" |
| ~ default | loss due to not showing up.; "he lost the game by default" |
| ~ capitulation, surrender, fall | the act of surrendering (usually under agreed conditions).; "they were protected until the capitulation of the fort" |
| n. (attribute) | 4. deprivation, loss | the disadvantage that results from losing something.; "his loss of credibility led to his resignation"; "losing him is no great deprivation" |
| ~ disadvantage | the quality of having an inferior or less favorable position. |
| n. (event) | 5. loss | the experience of losing a loved one.; "he sympathized on the loss of their grandfather" |
| ~ experience | an event as apprehended.; "a surprising experience"; "that painful experience certainly got our attention" |
| n. (possession) | 6. loss, red, red ink | the amount by which the cost of a business exceeds its revenue.; "the company operated at a loss last year"; "the company operated in the red last year" |
| ~ paper loss | an unrealized loss on an investment calculated by subtracting the current market price from the investor's cost. |
| ~ squeeze | a situation in which increased costs cannot be passed on to the customer.; "increased expenses put a squeeze on profits" |
| ~ amount, amount of money, sum, sum of money | a quantity of money.; "he borrowed a large sum"; "the amount he had in cash was insufficient" |
| n. (event) | 7. loss, personnel casualty | military personnel lost by death or capture. |
| ~ casualty | a decrease of military personnel or equipment. |
| ~ combat injury, wound, injury | a casualty to military personnel resulting from combat. |
| ~ sacrifice | personnel that are sacrificed (e.g., surrendered or lost in order to gain an objective). |
| ~ armed forces, armed services, military, military machine, war machine | the military forces of a nation.; "their military is the largest in the region"; "the military machine is the same one we faced in 1991 but now it is weaker" |
| n. (event) | 8. departure, exit, expiration, going, loss, passing, release | euphemistic expressions for death.; "thousands mourned his passing" |
| ~ euphemism | an inoffensive or indirect expression that is substituted for one that is considered offensive or too harsh. |
| ~ death, decease, expiry | the event of dying or departure from life.; "her death came as a terrible shock"; "upon your decease the capital will pass to your grandchildren" |
| lose | | |
| v. (possession) | 1. lose | fail to keep or to maintain; cease to have, either physically or in an abstract sense.; "She lost her purse when she left it unattended on her seat" |
| ~ white-out, whiteout | lose daylight visibility in heavy fog, snow, or rain. |
| ~ sleep off | get rid of by sleeping.; "sleep off a hangover" |
| v. (competition) | 2. lose | fail to win.; "We lost the battle but we won the war" |
| ~ compete, vie, contend | compete for something; engage in a contest; measure oneself against others. |
| ~ go down | be defeated.; "If America goes down, the free world will go down, too" |
| ~ drop | lose (a game).; "The Giants dropped 11 of their first 13" |
| ~ remain down, take the count | be counted out; remain down while the referee counts to ten. |
| ~ drop one's serve | lose a game in which one is serving. |
| v. (emotion) | 3. lose | suffer the loss of a person through death or removal.; "She lost her husband in the war"; "The couple that wanted to adopt the child lost her when the biological parents claimed her" |
| ~ suffer | experience (emotional) pain.; "Every time her husband gets drunk, she suffers" |
| v. (contact) | 4. lose, mislay, misplace | place (something) where one cannot find it again.; "I misplaced my eyeglasses" |
| ~ lay, place, put, set, position, pose | put into a certain place or abstract location.; "Put your things here"; "Set the tray down"; "Set the dogs on the scent of the missing children"; "Place emphasis on a certain point" |
| v. (possession) | 5. lose | miss from one's possessions; lose sight of.; "I've lost my glasses again!" |
| ~ forget, leave | leave behind unintentionally.; "I forgot my umbrella in the restaurant"; "I left my keys inside the car and locked the doors" |
| v. (perception) | 6. lose | allow to go out of sight.; "The detective lost the man he was shadowing after he had to stop at a red light" |
| v. (possession) | 7. lose, turn a loss | fail to make money in a business; make a loss or fail to profit.; "I lost thousands of dollars on that bad investment!"; "The company turned a loss after the first year" |
| v. (possession) | 8. lose | fail to get or obtain.; "I lost the opportunity to spend a year abroad" |
| v. (competition) | 9. drop off, fall back, fall behind, lose, recede | retreat. |
| ~ retrogress, regress, retrograde | get worse or fall back to a previous condition. |
| v. (perception) | 10. lose, miss | fail to perceive or to catch with the senses or the mind.; "I missed that remark"; "She missed his point"; "We lost part of what he said" |
| ~ overlook | look past, fail to notice. |
| v. (change) | 11. lose, suffer | be set at a disadvantage.; "This author really suffers in translation" |
| ~ decline, worsen | grow worse.; "Conditions in the slum worsened" |
| ~ suffer | get worse.; "His grades suffered" |
| vanish | | |
| v. (change) | 1. disappear, go away, vanish | get lost, as without warning or explanation.; "He disappeared without a trace" |
| ~ fall away, fall off | diminish in size or intensity. |
| ~ fall | go as if by falling.; "Grief fell from our hearts" |
| ~ die | disappear or come to an end.; "Their anger died"; "My secret will die with me!" |
| ~ go | be abolished or discarded.; "These ugly billboards have to go!"; "These luxuries all had to go under the Khmer Rouge" |
| ~ absent, remove | go away or leave.; "He absented himself" |
| ~ blow over, evanesce, fleet, fade, pass off, pass | disappear gradually.; "The pain eventually passed off" |
| ~ fade, wither | lose freshness, vigor, or vitality.; "Her bloom was fading" |
| ~ skip town, take a powder | disappear without notifying anyone (idiom). |
| ~ die off, die out | become extinct.; "Dinosaurs died out" |
| ~ desorb | go away from the surface to which (a substance) is adsorbed. |
| v. (perception) | 2. disappear, go away, vanish | become invisible or unnoticeable.; "The effect vanished when day broke" |
| ~ dematerialise, dematerialize | become immaterial; disappear. |
| ~ clear | go away or disappear.; "The fog cleared in the afternoon" |
| ~ bob under | disappear suddenly, as if under the surface of a body of water. |
| ~ end, cease, terminate, finish, stop | have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical.; "the bronchioles terminate in a capillary bed"; "Your rights stop where you infringe upon the rights of other"; "My property ends by the bushes"; "The symphony ends in a pianissimo" |
| v. (motion) | 3. fell, fly, vanish | pass away rapidly.; "Time flies like an arrow"; "Time fleeing beneath him" |
| ~ vaporize, vanish, fly | decrease rapidly and disappear.; "the money vanished in las Vegas"; "all my stock assets have vaporized" |
| ~ elapse, glide by, go by, slide by, slip by, slip away, go along, pass, lapse | pass by.; "three years elapsed" |
| v. (change) | 4. disappear, vanish | cease to exist.; "An entire civilization vanished" |
| ~ end, cease, terminate, finish, stop | have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical.; "the bronchioles terminate in a capillary bed"; "Your rights stop where you infringe upon the rights of other"; "My property ends by the bushes"; "The symphony ends in a pianissimo" |
| v. (change) | 5. fly, vanish, vaporize | decrease rapidly and disappear.; "the money vanished in las Vegas"; "all my stock assets have vaporized" |
| ~ decrease, diminish, lessen, fall | decrease in size, extent, or range.; "The amount of homework decreased towards the end of the semester"; "The cabin pressure fell dramatically"; "her weight fell to under a hundred pounds"; "his voice fell to a whisper" |
| ~ fell, vanish, fly | pass away rapidly.; "Time flies like an arrow"; "Time fleeing beneath him" |
| non | | |
| adv. | 1. non, not | negation of a word or group of words.; "he does not speak French"; "she is not going"; "they are not friends"; "not many"; "not much"; "not at all" |
| none | | |
| n. (time) | 1. none | a canonical hour that is the ninth hour of the day counting from sunrise. |
| ~ time of day, hour | clock time.; "the hour is getting late" |
| n. (act) | 2. none | a service in the Roman Catholic Church formerly read or chanted at 3 PM (the ninth hour counting from sunrise) but now somewhat earlier. |
| ~ divine service, religious service, service | the act of public worship following prescribed rules.; "the Sunday service" |
| adj. | 3. none | not any.; "thou shalt have none other gods before me" |
| ~ no | quantifier; used with either mass nouns or plural count nouns for indicating a complete or almost complete lack or zero quantity of.; "we have no bananas"; "no eggs left and no money to buy any"; "have you no decency?"; "did it with no help"; "I'll get you there in no time" |
| adv. | 4. none | not at all or in no way.; "seemed none too pleased with his dinner"; "shirt looked none the worse for having been slept in"; "none too prosperous"; "the passage is none too clear" |
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