Crossword-Solution: LOSE 4 letters, 466 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 4

Dictionary

Word	Word Type	Definition
Lose	v. t.	To part with unintentionally or unwillingly, as by accident, misfortune, negligence, penalty, forfeit, etc.; to be deprived of; as, to lose money from one's purse or pocket, or in business or gaming; to lose an arm or a leg by amputation; to lose men in battle.
Lose	v. t.	To cease to have; to possess no longer; to suffer diminution of; as, to lose one's relish for anything; to lose one's health.
Lose	v. t.	Not to employ; to employ ineffectually; to throw away; to waste; to squander; as, to lose a day; to lose the benefits of instruction.
Lose	v. t.	To wander from; to miss, so as not to be able to and; to go astray from; as, to lose one's way.
Lose	v. t.	To ruin; to destroy; as destroy; as, the ship was lost on the ledge.
Lose	v. t.	To be deprived of the view of; to cease to see or know the whereabouts of; as, he lost his companion in the crowd.
Lose	v. t.	To fail to obtain or enjoy; to fail to gain or win; hence, to fail to catch with the mind or senses; to miss; as, I lost a part of what he said.
Lose	v. t.	To cause to part with; to deprive of.
Lose	v. t.	To prevent from gaining or obtaining.
Lose	v. i.	To suffer loss, disadvantage, or defeat; to be worse off, esp. as the result of any kind of contest.

Anagrams

Word		Anagrams
LOSE	anagram	ELOS, ESOL, LEOS, LOES, OELS, OLES, OSEL, SLOE, SOLE

We have 466 clues for the answer “LOSE”

Clue	Answers
"Born to ___" Social Distortion	1 answer
"Having nothing, nothing can he ___."	1 answer
"Heads I win, tails you ___"	1 answer
"If I Ever ___ My Faith in You" Sting	1 answer
"No time to ___!"	1 answer
"Rikki Don't ___ That Number"	1 answer
"Tails, you ___"	1 answer
"You snooze, you __"	1 answer
"___ the attitude!"	1 answer
Allow blocks to reach the top in "Tetris," e.g.	1 answer
Allow to go out of sight	1 answer
Alternative to draw	1 answer
Alternative to win or draw	1 answer
Attain also-ran status	1 answer
Be Beaten	1 answer
Be a consolation round candidate	1 answer
Be a runner-up	1 answer
Be an also-ran	1 answer
Be an unsuccessful gambler	1 answer
Be beat	1 answer
Be bested or worsted	1 answer
Be checkmated	1 answer
Be on the short end	1 answer
Be on the wrong side of a rout	1 answer
Be outmatched	1 answer
Be outscored	1 answer
Be shut out.	1 answer
Be slow, as watches	1 answer
Be the also-ran	1 answer
Be unable to find	1 answer
Be upset, say	1 answer
Be vanquished	1 answer
Blow a game	1 answer
Blow a lead, say	1 answer
Blow, as a game	1 answer
Blow, as a lead	1 answer
Break an undefeated streak	1 answer
Break the ice in Don't Break the Ice, e.g.	1 answer
Bring up the field	1 answer
Cease to have.	1 answer
Come in behind the others	1 answer
Come in second, e.g.	1 answer
Come in second, per a competitive person	1 answer
Come in too late?	1 answer
Come off second best.	1 answer
Come out behind	1 answer
Come out not on top	1 answer
Come up a second short	1 answer
Diet successfuly	1 answer
Diet-ad verb	1 answer

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Hint 1 meaning

An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.

Hint 2 anagram

MCEEZA

Hint 3 another clue

eruption

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Sentences with LOSE (5)

Once again the stars blew the window open, and that smallest star of all called out: “Cave, Peter!” Then Peter knew that there was not a moment to lose.

Peter Pan James M. Barrie 1991

Awake My fairest, my espous’d, my latest found, Heav’ns last best gift, my ever new delight, Awake, the morning shines, and the fresh field Calls us, we lose the prime, to mark how spring Our tended Plants, how blows the Citron Grove, What drops the Myrrhe, & what the balmie Reed, How Nature paints her colours, how the Bee Sits on the Bloom extracting liquid sweet.

Paradise Lost John Milton 1991

Unwilling to lose his filberts, and yet unable to withdraw his hand, he burst into tears and bitterly lamented his disappointment.

Aesop’s Fables Aesop 2000

The influence of brandy upon him, and of slavery upon her, had effected a disastrous change in the characters of both; so that, as far as they were concerned, I thought I had little to lose by the change.

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass Frederick Douglass 1992

She told old Brunot, the miser, that he would lose all his money, marry a girl of sixteen, and live happily on a crust.

O Pioneers! Willa Cather 1991

Quotes with LOSE (3)

It's my turn to see you through,' she whispers, coming back to me and wrapping me in her blanket as I lose my shit all over again. She holds me until I recover my Y chromosome.

Gayle Forman Where She Went

Ibn al-Arabi gave this advice: Do not attach yourself to any particular creed exclusively, so that you may disbelieve all the rest; otherwise you will lose much good, nay, you will fail to recognize the real truth of the matter. God, the omnipresent and omnipotent, is not limited by any one creed, for he says, 'Wheresoever ye turn, there is the face of Allah' (Koran 2:109). Everyone praises what he believes; his god is his own creature, and in praising it he praises himself. …

Karen Armstrong A History of God: The 4,000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam

I haven't had a lot of good, soft things in my life," he said against my forehead. "Not since my family sent me away. Apart from being your sire and feeling that pull to you, it's that goodness, that softness and warmth, along with the resolve and strength in you, that I love. Being turned hasn't taken that from you. If someone were going to design the perfect mate for me, it would be you. Even when you infuriate me with your pigheaded stubbornness and your temper and incredi…

Molly Harper Nice Girls Don't Date Dead Men

Where this answer appears

Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, Custom, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, Rock & Roll, S&S, Slate, The Atlantic, Three Across, TIME, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 865 times in crossword archives (1951–2025).