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to lose
HSK 3
disappointed / to lose hope / to despair
HSK 4
to be defeated / to lose / to fail (e.g. experiments) / failure / defeat / CL:
HSK 4
unemployment / to lose one's job
HSK 4
lapse / mistake / to make a mistake / fault / service fault (in volleyball, tennis etc)
HSK 5
to go out of control
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 fail / to lose effectiveness
HSK 7-9
to lose one's eyesight / to become blind / blindness
HSK 7-9
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
to lose / to suffer defeat
HSK 7-9
out of order (of machine) / not working properly / a failing (of a system)
HSK 7-9
unemployment rate
HSK 7-9
(of skills etc) to die out / lost / extinct
HSK 7-9
absent-minded / to lose spirit / despondent
aphasia or aphemia (loss of language)
to miscalculate; to misjudge
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to lose / to miss / to fail
to be at a loss
to catch fire; to be on fire
(urinary or fecal) incontinence
to unbalance / an imbalance
(military) (of a city etc) to fall into enemy hands / (fig.) to take a turn for the worse
to lose face; to be humiliated
out of tune (music)
imbalance / to become dysfunctional / to lack proper care (after an illness etc)
disappointed; frustrated
to act discourteously / forgive me (for my impropriety)
to lose blood / to hemorrhage / (fig.) to suffer losses (financial etc)
to go deaf; to lose one's hearing / deafness; hearing loss
a slip / miscalculation / unwise move / accidentally / by mistake / to lose control / to be defeated
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 lose power and influence
unable to go to school / an interruption to one's education
to lose one's voice / (to cry out) involuntarily
not up to scratch; subpar; off; gone awry / (of an instrument) to be out of kilter / (of a forecast) to be off the mark
Failure is the mother of success.
to be disloyal (to one's country, spouse etc) / to lose one's chastity
to lose touch with / missing / scattered / separated from
defeatism
to lose sth and then regain it (idiom)
to be orphaned of one's father
to lose one's footing / to slip / to take a wrong step in life
to lose color / to turn pale
to miss an appointment
to lose one's virginity; to lose one's chastity
owner of sth lost or stolen
(of a plane, ship etc) to have an accident (plane crash, shipwreck, vehicle collision etc) / to mess things up
to forget one's manners / to forget oneself / to lose self-control (in a situation)
to lack fidelity / (signal) distortion
trouble / damage / setback / sth goes wrong
to give a false picture of the situation
unwise move / to make an unwise move
to break a promise
to laugh in spite of oneself / to be unable to help laughing / to break into laughter
late (for an appointed time)
(aviation) to stall
list of lost or stolen articles
to blunder / to miscalculate / miscalculation / unwise (move)
not normal / an aberration
weightlessness
to lose favor / to become estranged
(idiom) dazed; beside oneself
to lose favor / in disfavor / disgraced
to lose / to miss
to lose one's way / to get lost (on the road etc)
to make a careless mistake / mistake; slip-up
to lose sb one relies upon / to lose one's mother
slip of the tongue / indiscretion / to blurt out a secret
Excuse me, I must be leaving now.
to have sth stolen / to lose to theft / robbed
to miss narrowly / to let a great opportunity slip
to show disrespect; I'm awfully sorry – please forgive me
slip of the tongue / indiscretion / to blurt out a secret
to lose territory / lost territory
failure to meet / (humble language) I'm sorry not to have come to meet you personally
an unemployed person
demeaning
to overstep the rules / to go out of bounds / disqualification / to lose face / disqualified
to fail in observing or supervising / to miss / to let sth slip through
out of one's mind
alexia
to fail to greet in timely manner
disrepair
an unjust cause finds little support (idiom, from Mencius) / cf 得道多助 a just cause attracts much support
loss
(Tw) dementia
lost-and-found
to lose contact / to be lost
to suffer a loss of cognitive function; to develop dementia
loser
to lose one's spouse (through marriage failure or bereavement)
to panic
a tiny lapse can lead to a huge mistake (idiom); a minor discrepancy leading to enormous losses
to get into disarray / to get out of whack
lost and found
to lose face
to lose one's memory

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