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Definition of Lost

Lost

  1. Parted with unwillingly or unintentionally; not to be found; missing; as, a lost book or sheep.
  2. Parted with; no longer held or possessed; as, a lost limb; lost honor.
  3. Not employed or enjoyed; thrown away; employed ineffectually; wasted; squandered; as, a lost day; a lost opportunity or benefit.
  4. Having wandered from, or unable to find, the way; bewildered; perplexed; as, a child lost in the woods; a stranger lost in London.
  5. 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.
  6. Hardened beyond sensibility or recovery; alienated; insensible; as, lost to shame; lost to all sense of honor.
  7. Not perceptible to the senses; no longer visible; as, an island lost in a fog; a person lost in a crowd.
  8. Occupied with, or under the influence of, something, so as to be insensible of external things; as, to be lost in thought.

Lost Quotations

I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.
Michael Jordan

J. R. R. Tolkien Quote
Not all who wander are lost.
J. R. R. Tolkien

Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.
Colin Powell

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

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