noun. The act or an instance of losing.

noun. undefined

noun. One that is lost.

noun. The condition of being deprived or bereaved of something or someone.

noun. The amount of something lost.

noun. The harm or suffering caused by losing or being lost.

noun. People lost in wartime; casualties.

noun. Destruction.

noun. The power decrease caused by resistance in a circuit, circuit element, or device.

noun. The amount of a claim on an insurer by an insured.

idiom. (at a loss) Below cost.

idiom. (at a loss) Perplexed; puzzled.

noun. See loess.

noun. Failure to hold, keep, or preserve what one has had in his possession; disappearance from possession, use, or knowledge; deprivation of that which one has had: as, the loss of money by gaming; loss of health or reputation; loss of children: opposed to gain.

noun. Specifically, death.

noun. Failure to gain or win: as, the loss of a prize or battle.

noun. That which is lost or forfeited; that which has been scattered or wasted: as, the loss by leakage amounted to 20 gallons; an insurance company's loss by a fire.

noun. Defeat; overthrow; ruin.

noun. Lack; want.

noun. The state of being at fault; the state of having lost the trail and scent of game.

noun. At such a price as to lose or incur loss.

noun. To sustain a loss with spirit or fortitude.

noun. Synonyms Loss, Detriment, Damage, Waste, Forfeiture, etc. Loss is the class word under which detriment, damage, waste, forfeiture, etc., are species. Loss, detriment, and damage apply to persons or things; waste and forfeiture only to things. As to detriment and damage, see injury. Waste is generally voluntary, although not always realized; sometimes it is only by neglect. Forfeiture is a loss through the law, as a penalty or as the result of neglect.

noun. The act of losing; failure; destruction; privation

noun. The state of losing or having lost; the privation, defect, misfortune, harm, etc., which ensues from losing.

noun. That which is lost or from which one has parted; waste; -- opposed to gain or increase.

noun. The state of being lost or destroyed; especially, the wreck or foundering of a ship or other vessel.

noun. Failure to gain or win.

noun. Failure to use advantageously.

noun. Killed, wounded, and captured persons, or captured property.

noun. Destruction or diminution of value, if brought about in a manner provided for in the insurance contract (as destruction by fire or wreck, damage by water or smoke), or the death or injury of an insured person; also, the sum paid or payable therefor.

noun. to make a loss good; also, to sustain a loss without sinking under it.

noun. to be in a state of uncertainty.

noun. an instance of losing, such as a defeat

noun. something that is lost

noun. the hurtful condition of having lost something or someone

noun. casualties, especially physically eliminated victims of violent conflict

noun. the sum an entity loses on balance

noun. destruction, ruin

noun. electricity of kinetic power expended without doing useful work

noun. the act of losing someone or something

noun. the disadvantage that results from losing something

noun. something that is lost

noun. gradual decline in amount or activity

noun. the amount by which the cost of a business exceeds its revenue

noun. euphemistic expressions for death

noun. the experience of losing a loved one

noun. military personnel lost by death or capture

"The loss of his time was the _master's loss_, and _not_ the servant's."