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to lose
HSK 3
to be defeated / to lose / to fail (e.g. experiments) / failure / defeat / CL:
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
unemployment / to lose one's job
HSK 4
to lose one's eyesight / to become blind / blindness
HSK 7-9
to show disrespect; I'm awfully sorry – please forgive me
unemployment rate
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 lose favor / to become estranged
to break a promise
to lose / to suffer defeat
HSK 7-9
blood loss anemia
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 lose one's love / to break up (in a romantic relationship) / to feel jilted
HSK 7-9
to suffer from insomnia
HSK 7-9
a tiny lapse can lead to a huge mistake (idiom); a minor discrepancy leading to enormous losses
(idiom) dazed; beside oneself
disappointed; frustrated
to miss an appointment
to lose territory / lost territory
(of skills etc) to die out / lost / extinct
HSK 7-9
to lose blood / to hemorrhage / (fig.) to suffer losses (financial etc)
to catch fire; to be on fire
(aviation) to stall
to lose color / to turn pale
lost and found
to forget one's manners / to forget oneself / to lose self-control (in a situation)
to lose / to miss
a slip / miscalculation / unwise move / accidentally / by mistake / to lose control / to be defeated
aphasia or aphemia (loss of language)
to lose one's way / to get lost (on the road etc)
lost-and-found
to be missing / to disappear / unaccounted for
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 give a false picture of the situation
expiry date (of document)
bereaved of one's only child
lacking in propriety / bad form
Failure is the mother of success.
disrepair
to lack fidelity / (signal) distortion
to miscalculate; to misjudge
to lose one's memory
slip of the tongue / indiscretion / to blurt out a secret
to lose face; to be humiliated
owner of sth lost or stolen
not up to scratch; subpar; off; gone awry / (of an instrument) to be out of kilter / (of a forecast) to be off the mark
an unjust cause finds little support (idiom, from Mencius) / cf 得道多助 a just cause attracts much support
to lose one's spouse (through marriage failure or bereavement)
(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 suffer a loss of cognitive function; to develop dementia
an unemployed person
to be disloyal (to one's country, spouse etc) / to lose one's chastity
weightlessness
(of a plane, ship etc) to have an accident (plane crash, shipwreck, vehicle collision etc) / to mess things up
agraphia
(of an enzyme, microorganism, catalyst etc) to lose biological or chemical activity; to become inactivated
hypothermia
to lose contact / to be lost
out of tune (music)
imbalance / to become dysfunctional / to lack proper care (after an illness etc)
(literary) to lose one's way; to get lost / (literary) to stray from the proper course
to lose power and influence
unable to go to school / an interruption to one's education
to get into disarray / to get out of whack
absent-minded / to lose spirit / despondent
loser
amnesia
to lose face
to lose favor / in disfavor / disgraced
to lose sb one relies upon / to lose one's mother
to have sth stolen / to lose to theft / robbed
to laugh in spite of oneself / to be unable to help laughing / to break into laughter
to be at a loss
to blunder / to miscalculate / miscalculation / unwise (move)
to lose sth and then regain it (idiom)
demeaning
to make a careless mistake / mistake; slip-up
(urinary or fecal) incontinence
to act discourteously / forgive me (for my impropriety)
to fail to greet in timely manner
to lose touch with / missing / scattered / separated from
Excuse me, I must be leaving now.
not normal / an aberration
(Tw) dementia
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  *失* | 失* | *失
to lose / to miss / to fail
a family bereaved of its only child
to neglect one's duty; to be guilty of dereliction of duty
list of lost or stolen articles
blindness
disharmony / to become estranged
to be orphaned of one's father
to suffer hypothermia
alexia

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