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to lose
HSK 3
to be defeated / to lose / to fail (e.g. experiments) / failure / defeat / CL:
HSK 4
unemployment / to lose one's job
HSK 4
disappointed / to lose hope / to despair
HSK 4
lapse / mistake / to make a mistake / fault / service fault (in volleyball, tennis etc)
HSK 5
to fail / to lose effectiveness
HSK 7-9
out of order (of machine) / not working properly / a failing (of a system)
HSK 7-9
to lose one's eyesight / to become blind / blindness
HSK 7-9
to lose (sth) / to drop (sth) / to feel a sense of loss / frustrated / disappointment / loss
HSK 7-9
to be missing / to disappear / unaccounted for
HSK 7-9
to go out of control
HSK 7-9
to suffer from insomnia
HSK 7-9
(of skills etc) to die out / lost / extinct
HSK 7-9
to lose / to suffer defeat
HSK 7-9
to lose one's love / to break up (in a romantic relationship) / to feel jilted
HSK 7-9
unemployment rate
HSK 7-9
to suffer a loss of cognitive function; to develop dementia
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to lose / to miss / to fail
to lack fidelity / (signal) distortion
(urinary or fecal) incontinence
to neglect one's duty; to be guilty of dereliction of duty
(military) (of a city etc) to fall into enemy hands / (fig.) to take a turn for the worse
to lose one's footing / to slip / to take a wrong step in life
(of a plane, ship etc) to have an accident (plane crash, shipwreck, vehicle collision etc) / to mess things up
to break a promise
to catch fire; to be on fire
(aviation) to stall
owner of sth lost or stolen
out of tune (music)
imbalance / to become dysfunctional / to lack proper care (after an illness etc)
to lose one's voice / (to cry out) involuntarily
to lose by theft / to have one's property stolen
a slip / miscalculation / unwise move / accidentally / by mistake / to lose control / to be defeated
to lose color / to turn pale
to lose blood / to hemorrhage / (fig.) to suffer losses (financial etc)
to lose touch with / missing / scattered / separated from
to forget one's manners / to forget oneself / to lose self-control (in a situation)
to go deaf; to lose one's hearing / deafness; hearing loss
to unbalance / an imbalance
disrepair
to panic
to let slip / loss of speech (e.g. as a result of brain damage); aphasia
slip of the tongue / indiscretion / to blurt out a secret
to lose sth and then regain it (idiom)
to lose one's virginity; to lose one's chastity
to laugh in spite of oneself / to be unable to help laughing / to break into laughter
disappointed; frustrated
to lose / to miss
to miss narrowly / to let a great opportunity slip
to act discourteously / forgive me (for my impropriety)
to lose territory / lost territory
list of lost or stolen articles
inappropriate / improper
to lose favor / in disfavor / disgraced
to lose at sunrise but gain at sunset (idiom) / to compensate later for one's earlier loss / what you lose on the swings you gain on the roundabouts
to blunder / to miscalculate / miscalculation / unwise (move)
to miscalculate; to misjudge
to give a false picture of the situation
disharmony / to become estranged
to miss an appointment
to lose one's memory
a tiny lapse can lead to a huge mistake (idiom); a minor discrepancy leading to enormous losses
to fail in observing or supervising / to miss / to let sth slip through
to lose power and influence
unable to go to school / an interruption to one's education
Excuse me, I must be leaving now.
an unjust cause finds little support (idiom, from Mencius) / cf 得道多助 a just cause attracts much support
to be disloyal (to one's country, spouse etc) / to lose one's chastity
to show disrespect; I'm awfully sorry – please forgive me
to have sth stolen / to lose to theft / robbed
failure to meet / (humble language) I'm sorry not to have come to meet you personally
to lose favor / to become estranged
unwise move / to make an unwise move
to lose one's way / to get lost (on the road etc)
to overstep the rules / to go out of bounds / disqualification / to lose face / disqualified
(literary) to lose one's way; to get lost / (literary) to stray from the proper course
loser
a tiny lapse can lead to a huge mistake (idiom); a minor discrepancy leading to enormous losses
aphasia or aphemia (loss of language)
late (for an appointed time)
(law) judgement defaulter (person who has failed to fulfill obligations set forth in a written court judgement, such as paying compensation to sb, despite having the means to do so) / debt dodger
to be orphaned of one's father
not up to scratch; subpar; off; gone awry / (of an instrument) to be out of kilter / (of a forecast) to be off the mark
to get into disarray / to get out of whack
to lose sb one relies upon / to lose one's mother
to regret / to feel remorse
defeatism
breach of responsibility / failure to carry out one's duty
a tiny lapse can lead to a huge mistake (idiom); a minor discrepancy leading to enormous losses
discourteous / failure of etiquette
loss
to lose one's spouse (through marriage failure or bereavement)
amnesia
to lose face; to be humiliated
trouble / damage / setback / sth goes wrong
to peter out / to lose momentum / to lose steam
slip of the tongue / indiscretion / to blurt out a secret
inappropriate / improper
agraphia
not normal / an aberration

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