Definition of Lost

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Definition of Lost

Lost

Parted with unwillingly or unintentionally; not to be found; missing; as, a lost book or sheep.

Parted with; no longer held or possessed; as, a lost limb; lost honor.

Not employed or enjoyed; thrown away; employed ineffectually; wasted; squandered; as, a lost day; a lost opportunity or benefit.

Having wandered from, or unable to find, the way; bewildered; perplexed; as, a child lost in the woods; a stranger lost in London.

Ruined or destroyed, either physically or morally; past help or hope; as, a ship lost at sea; a woman lost to virtue; a lost soul.

Hardened beyond sensibility or recovery; alienated; insensible; as, lost to shame; lost to all sense of honor.

Not perceptible to the senses; no longer visible; as, an island lost in a fog; a person lost in a crowd.

Occupied with, or under the influence of, something, so as to be insensible of external things; as, to be lost in thought.

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Lost Quotations

If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost.
Zig Ziglar

If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists - to protect them and to promote their common welfare - all else is lost.
Barack Obama

If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future.
Winston Churchill

When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.
Winston Churchill

It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.
Mark Twain

Lord save us all from a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.
Mark Twain

I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end... I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.
Abraham Lincoln

I think it would be interesting if old people got anti-Alzheimer's disease where they slowly began to recover other people's lost memories.
George Carlin

Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper.
Kahlil Gibran

Lost time is never found again.
Benjamin Franklin

Lost Translations

lost in Dutch is verloren, kwijt, vervlogen
lost in French is perdis, perdirent, perdus, perdu, perdues, perdit
lost in German is verlohren, verloren
lost in Italian is perduto
lost in Portuguese is perdido
lost in Spanish is perdido

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