[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

lose \lose\ l=ooz, v. t. imp.  p. p. lost lo^st; 115
   p. pr.  vb. n. losing l=ooz"i^ng. oe. losien to
   loose, be lost, lose, as. losian to become loose; akin to oe.
   leosen to lose, p. p. loren, lorn, as. le'isan, p. p. loren
   in comp., d. verliezen, g. verlieren, dan. forlise, sw.
   f"orlisa, f"orlora, goth. fraliusan, also to e. loose, a
    v., l. luere to loose, gr. ly`ein, skr. l=u to cut.
   root127. cf. analysis, palsy, solve, forlorn,
   leasing, loose, loss.
   1913 webster
   1. to part with unintentionally or unwillingly, as by
      accident, misfortune, negligence, penalty, forfeit, etc.;
      to be deprived of; as, to lose money from one's purse or
      pocket, or in business or gaming; to lose an arm or a leg
      by amputation; to lose men in battle.
      1913 webster

            fair venus wept the sad disaster
            of having lost her favorite dove.     --prior.
      1913 webster

   2. to cease to have; to possess no longer; to suffer
      diminution of; as, to lose one's relish for anything; to
      lose one's health.
      1913 webster

            if the salt hath lost his savor, wherewith shall it
            be salted?                            --matt. v. 13.
      1913 webster

   3. not to employ; to employ ineffectually; to throw away; to
      waste; to squander; as, to lose a day; to lose the
      benefits of instruction.
      1913 webster

            the unhappy have but hours, and these they lose.
                                                  --dryden.
      1913 webster

   4. to wander from; to miss, so as not to be able to and; to
      go astray from; as, to lose one's way.
      1913 webster

            he hath lost his fellows.             --shak
      1913 webster

   5. to ruin; to destroy; as destroy; as, the ship was lost on
      the ledge.
      1913 webster

            the woman that deliberates is lost.   --addison.
      1913 webster

   6. to be deprived of the view of; to cease to see or know the
      whereabouts of; as, he lost his companion in the crowd.
      1913 webster

            like following life thro' creatures you dissect,
            you lose it in the moment you detect. --pope.
      1913 webster

   7. to fail to obtain or enjoy; to fail to gain or win; hence,
      to fail to catch with the mind or senses; to miss; as, i
      lost a part of what he said.
      1913 webster

            he shall in no wise lose his reward.  --matt. x. 42.
      1913 webster

            i fought the battle bravely which i lost,
            and lost it but to macedonians.       --dryden.
      1913 webster

   8. to cause to part with; to deprive of. r.
      1913 webster

            how should you go about to lose him a wife he loves
            with so much passion?                 --sir w.
                                                  temple.
      1913 webster

   9. to prevent from gaining or obtaining.
      1913 webster

            o false heart thou hadst almost betrayed me to
            eternal flames, and lost me this glory. --baxter.
      1913 webster

   to lose ground, to fall behind; to suffer gradual loss or
      disadvantage.

   to lose heart, to lose courage; to become timid. "the
      mutineers lost heart." --macaulay.

   to lose one's head, to be thrown off one's balance; to lose
      the use of one's good sense or judgment, through fear,
      anger, or other emotion.
      1913 webster

            in the excitement of such a discovery, many scholars
            lost their heads.                     --whitney.

   to lose one's self.
      a to forget or mistake the bearing of surrounding
          objects; as, to lose one's self in a great city.
      b to have the perceptive and rational power temporarily
          suspended; as, we lose ourselves in sleep.

   to lose sight of.
      a to cease to see; as, to lose sight of the land.
      b to overlook; to forget; to fail to perceive; as, he
          lost sight of the issue.
          1913 webster
see also:
lost losing analysis palsy solve forlorn 
leasing loose loss to lose ground to lose heart 
to lose one's head to lose one's self to lose sight of 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

lose \lose\, v. i.
   to suffer loss, disadvantage, or defeat; to be worse off,
   esp. as the result of any kind of contest.
   1913 webster

         we 'll . . . hear poor rogues
         talk of court news; and we'll talk with them too,
         who loses and who wins; who's in, who's out. --shak.
   1913 webster

[3] : WordNet (r) 2.0

lose
     v 1: 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" ant: keep
     2: fail to win; "we lost the battle but we won the war" ant: win
     3: 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: place something where one cannot find it again; "i
        misplaced my eyeglasses" syn: misplace, mislay
     5: miss from one's possessions; lose sight of; "i've lost my
        glasses again" ant: find
     6: allow to go out of sight; "the detective lost the man he was
        shadowing after he had to stop at a red light"
     7: 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" syn: turn a loss ant: profit, break even
     8: fail to get or obtain; "i lost the opportunity to spend a
        year abroad" ant: acquire
     9: retreat syn: fall back, drop off, fall behind, recede
        ant: gain
     10: 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" syn: miss
     11: be set at a disadvantage; "this author really suffers in
         translation" syn: suffer
     also: lost
see also:
keep win misplace mislay find turn a loss 
profit break even acquire fall back drop off 
fall behind recede gain miss suffer 
lost 

[4] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

80 moby thesaurus words for "lose":
   be bereaved of, be found wanting, be unsuccessful, bereave,
   bite the dust, bow, bow to, capitulate, clear, come to grief,
   consume, decline, default, disinherit, displace, dispossess,
   dissipate, divest, draw a blank, drop, elude, escape, evade,
   exhaust, expend, fail, fail of success, fall, flunk, flunk out,
   forfeit, forget, fritter away, give the slip, give up,
   go astray from, go bankrupt, go down, go under, have enough,
   incur loss, kiss good-bye, labor in vain, let slip, lick the dust,
   lose out, lose sight of, lose the day, mislay, misplace, miss,
   not come off, not pass, not remember, not work, oust, part with,
   relinquish, rid, rob, sacrifice, say uncle, shake off, slip, spend,
   spill, squander, succumb, suffer loss, surrender, take the count,
   throw off, trifle away, tumble, unburden, undergo privation,
   use up, wander from, waste, yield

[5] : Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001)

lose vi. 1. very common to fail. a program loses when it encounters
   an exceptional condition or fails to work in the expected manner. 2. to
   be exceptionally unesthetic or crocky. 3. of people, to be obnoxious or
   unusually stupid as opposed to ignorant. see also deserves to lose.
   4. n. refers to something that is losing, especially in the phrases
   "that's a lose" and "what a lose"


see also:
deserves to lose losing 

[6] : The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)

lose
     
         mit 1. to fail.  a program loses when it
        encounters an exceptional condition or fails to work in the
        expected manner.
     
        2. to be exceptionally unesthetic or crocky.
     
        3. of people, to be obnoxious or unusually stupid as opposed
        to ignorant.
     
        4. refers to something that is losing, especially in the
        phrases "that's a lose" and "what a lose"
     
        jargon file
     
        1995-04-19
     
     
see also:
mit losing jargon file 

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