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lost definition

lost (lôst, läst)

transitive verb, intransitive verb

adjective

    1. destroyed or ruined physically or morally
    2. Theol. damned; reprobate
  1. not to be found; missing
  2. no longer held or possessed; parted with
  3. no longer seen, heard, or known a person lost in a crowd
  4. not gained or won; attended with defeat
  5. having wandered from the way; uncertain as to one's location
  6. bewildered or ill at ease
  7. not spent profitably or usefully; wasted
  8. spent away from one's place of work, as because of illness to make up lost time
lost Idioms

get lost!

Slang go away!

lost in

absorbed in; engrossed in

lost on

without effect on; failing to influence

lost to

  1. no longer in the possession or enjoyment of
  2. no longer available to
  3. having no sense of (shame, right, etc.); insensible to

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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