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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 lose one's eyesight / to become blind / blindness
HSK 7-9
to show disrespect; I'm awfully sorry – please forgive me
to lose one's love / to break up (in a romantic relationship) / to feel jilted
HSK 7-9
out of order (of machine) / not working properly / a failing (of a system)
HSK 7-9
to go out of control
HSK 7-9
to break a promise
to lose / to suffer defeat
HSK 7-9
Failure is the mother of success.
to lose (sth) / to drop (sth) / to feel a sense of loss / frustrated / disappointment / loss
HSK 7-9
to miss narrowly / to let a great opportunity slip
to fail / to lose effectiveness
HSK 7-9
to unbalance / an imbalance
to suffer from insomnia
HSK 7-9
to be missing / to disappear / unaccounted for
HSK 7-9
lacking in propriety / bad form
to lose one's memory
(idiom) dazed; beside oneself
to lose contact / to be lost
disappointed; frustrated
to lose territory / lost territory
bereaved of one's only child
to lose blood / to hemorrhage / (fig.) to suffer losses (financial etc)
to lose one's voice / (to cry out) involuntarily
to catch fire; to be on fire
(aviation) to stall
an unemployed person
to miss an appointment
to go deaf; to lose one's hearing / deafness; hearing loss
to lose color / to turn pale
to lose / to miss
unemployment rate
HSK 7-9
breach of responsibility / failure to carry out one's duty
discourteous / failure of etiquette
a slip / miscalculation / unwise move / accidentally / by mistake / to lose control / to be defeated
to neglect one's duty; to be guilty of dereliction of duty
defeatism
to lose one's way / to get lost (on the road etc)
to lose favor / in disfavor / disgraced
(of skills etc) to die out / lost / extinct
HSK 7-9
to overstep the rules / to go out of bounds / disqualification / to lose face / disqualified
a tiny lapse can lead to a huge mistake (idiom); a minor discrepancy leading to enormous losses
to be disloyal (to one's country, spouse etc) / to lose one's chastity
expiry date (of document)
disrepair
out of one's mind
to lack fidelity / (signal) distortion
to miscalculate; to misjudge
unable to go to school / an interruption to one's education
slip of the tongue / indiscretion / to blurt out a secret
to lose face; to be humiliated
owner of sth lost or stolen
loser
to lose by theft / to have one's property stolen
an unjust cause finds little support (idiom, from Mencius) / cf 得道多助 a just cause attracts much support
a tiny lapse can lead to a huge mistake (idiom); a minor discrepancy leading to enormous losses
to lose one's spouse (through marriage failure or bereavement)
to suffer a loss of cognitive function; to develop dementia
weightlessness
(of a plane, ship etc) to have an accident (plane crash, shipwreck, vehicle collision etc) / to mess things up
(of an enzyme, microorganism, catalyst etc) to lose biological or chemical activity; to become inactivated
(literary) to lose one's way; to get lost / (literary) to stray from the proper course
to peter out / to lose momentum / to lose steam
inappropriate / improper
to get into disarray / to get out of whack
amnesia
absent-minded / to lose spirit / despondent
a tiny lapse can lead to a huge mistake (idiom); a minor discrepancy leading to enormous losses
to lose sb one relies upon / to lose one's mother
hypothermia
lost and found
to laugh in spite of oneself / to be unable to help laughing / to break into laughter
to lose sth and then regain it (idiom)
to lose power and influence
to be at a loss
to suffer hypothermia
to act discourteously / forgive me (for my impropriety)
to blunder / to miscalculate / miscalculation / unwise (move)
trouble / damage / setback / sth goes wrong
demeaning
(urinary or fecal) incontinence
unwise move / to make an unwise move
to let slip / loss of speech (e.g. as a result of brain damage); aphasia
list of lost or stolen articles
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 fail to greet in timely manner
to lose face
to lose touch with / missing / scattered / separated from
lost-and-found
out of tune (music)
imbalance / to become dysfunctional / to lack proper care (after an illness etc)
Excuse me, I must be leaving now.
not normal / an aberration
(Tw) dementia
offset voltage
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *失* | 失* | *失
to lose / to miss / to fail

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