What is the meaning of lose?

verb

• Fail to keep or to maintain; cease to have, either physically or in an abstract sense.
  • usage: "She lost her purse when she left it unattended on her seat"
• Fail to win.
  • usage: "We lost the battle but we won the war"
• Suffer the loss of a person through death or removal.
  • usage: "She lost her husband in the war"; "The couple that wanted to adopt the child lost her when the biological parents claimed her"
• Place (something) where one cannot find it again.
  • usage: "I misplaced my eyeglasses"
  • synonyms: misplace, mislay
• Miss from one's possessions; lose sight of.
  • usage: "I've lost my glasses again"
• Allow to go out of sight.
  • usage: "The detective lost the man he was shadowing after he had to stop at a red light"
• Fail to make money in a business; make a loss or fail to profit.
  • usage: "I lost thousands of dollars on that bad investment"; "The company turned a loss after the first year"
  • synonyms: turn a loss
• Fail to get or obtain.
  • usage: "I lost the opportunity to spend a year abroad"
• Retreat.
  • synonyms: fall back, drop off, fall behind, recede
• Fail to perceive or to catch with the senses or the mind.
  • usage: "I missed that remark"; "She missed his point"; "We lost part of what he said"
  • synonyms: miss
• Be set at a disadvantage.
  • usage: "This author really suffers in translation"
  • synonyms: suffer