Definition of losing

"losing" in the verb sense

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"

2. lose

fail to win

"We lost the battle but we won the war"

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"

4. lose

miss from one's possessions lose sight of

"I've lost my glasses again!"

5. lose

allow to go out of sight or mind

"The detective lost the man he was shadowing after he had to stop at a red light"

"lose the crowds by climbing a mountain"

"the lost tribe"

6. 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"

7. lose

fail to get or obtain

"I lost the opportunity to spend a year abroad"

8. miss, lose

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"

9. lose

withdraw, as from reality

"he lost himslef in his music"

10. suffer, lose

be set at a disadvantage

"This author really suffers in translation"

"The painting loses something in this light"

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Quotations for losing

The losing side is full of suspicion. [ Syrus ]

Losing the bundles gathering the wisps. [ Gaelic Proverb ]

Yet the first bringer of unwelcome news
Hath but a losing office; and his tongue
Sounds ever after as a sullen bell,
Remember'd tolling a departed friend. [ Shakespeare ]

Is there aught in sleep can charm the wise?
To lie in dead oblivion, losing half
The fleeting moments of too short a life;
Total extinction of the enlightened soul! [ James Thomson ]

Buying and selling is but winning and losing. [ Proverb ]

Yet is there one more cursed than they all.
That canker-worm, that monster, jealousie,
Which eats the heart and feeds upon the gall,
Turning all love's delight to misery.
Through fear of losing his felicity. [ Spenser ]

Amongst true friends there is no fear of losing anything. [ Jeremy Taylor ]

The only way to be sure of not losing a child, is never to have any. [ Proverb ]

She that loses her modesty and honesty, hath nothing else worth losing. [ Proverb ]

Hasten slowly, and without losing heart put your work twenty times upon the anvil. [ Boileau ]

By gaining the people, the kingdom is gained; by losing the people, the kingdom is lost. [ Confucius ]

Happiness is a sunbeam, which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray. [ Sir P. Sidney ]

Men have a solicitude about fame; and the greater share they have of it, the more afraid they are of losing it. [ Johnson ]

An act by which we make one friend and one enemy is a losing game; because revenge is a much stronger principle than gratitude. [ Colton ]

Travelling is like gambling; it is ever connected with winning and losing, and generally where least expected we receive more or less than we hoped for. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Were not this desire of fame very strong, the difficulty of obtaining it, and the danger of losing it when obtained, would be sufficient to deter a man from so vain a pursuit. [ Addison ]

Let us beware of losing our enthusiasms. Let us ever glory in something, and strive to retain our admiration for all that would ennoble, and our interest in all that would enrich and beautify our life. [ Phillips Brooks ]

There is a burden of care in getting riches, fear in keeping them, temptation in using them, guilt in abusing them, sorrow in losing them, and a burden of account at last to be given up concerning them. [ Matthew Henry ]

Every man will have his own criterion in forming his judgment of others. I depend very much on the effect of affliction. I consider how a man comes out of the furnace; gold will lie for a month in the furnace without losing a grain. [ Richard Cecil ]

To one given to day-dreaming, and fond of losing himself in reveries, a sea-voyage is full of subjects for meditation; but then they are the wonders of the deep and of the air, and rather tend to abstract the mind from worldly themes. [ W. Irving ]

Are we capable of so intimate and cordial a coalition of friendship as, that one man may pour out his bosom - his very inmost soul, with unreserved confidence to another, without hazard of losing part of that respect which man deserves from man. [ A. Burn ]

Nature's noblemen are everywhere, - in town and out of town, gloved and rough-handed, rich and poor. Prejudice against a lord, because he is a lord, is losing the chance of finding a good fellow, as much as prejudice against a ploughman because he is a ploughman. [ Willis ]

Living authors, therefore, are usually bad companions. If they have not gained character, they seek to do so by methods often ridiculous, always disgusting; and if they have established a character, they are silent for fear of losing by their tongue what they have acquired by their pen - for many authors converse much more foolishly than Goldsmith, who have never written half so well. [ Colton ]

losing in Scrabble®

The word losing is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 7

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays In The Letters losing:

LOGINS
(27)
LOSING
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All Scrabble® Plays For The Word losing

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The 200 Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays For Words Using The Letters In losing

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losing in Words With Friends™

The word losing is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 10

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters losing:

LOGINS
(60)
 

All Words With Friends™ Plays For The Word losing

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The 200 Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays Using The Letters In losing

LOGINS
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LOSING
(54)
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(48)
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(45)
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Words containing the sequence losing

Words that start with losing (2 words)

Words with losing in them (2 words)

Word Growth involving losing

Shorter words in losing

os

in sin sing

Longer words containing losing

anchylosing

ankylosing

closing closings

closing disclosing undisclosing

closing disinclosing

closing enclosing reenclosing

closing enclosing semienclosing

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closing reclosing foreclosing

closing reclosing preclosing

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losings closings

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