to lose
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5.5
- verb
- /luːz/
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- She tends to lose herself in her thoughts when she listens to music.
- lost in thought
I call that sometimes you lose yourself in doing.
- I call that sometimes you lose yourself in doing.
- And so essentially, you lose yourself trying to keep them.
- She doesn't feel like she's she's losing herself in this situation.
- You can't get lost in yourself and stand there in shock.
- But if you're stuck, lose yourself in the setting.
- And you would just lose yourself for hours doing that stuff.
- And GED tells him you didn't lose yourself.
- But for the most part, it's very rare that we lose our sense of conscious self.
Examples
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Don't let this become so big that you lose yourself amongst the noise.
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I call that sometimes you lose yourself in doing.
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- Guess it seems like the kind of place you could just lose yourself.
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And so essentially, you lose yourself trying to keep them.
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But if you're stuck, lose yourself in the setting.
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Anthropology has largely overcome the challenges of losing oneself in the field.
Academic text (2017) -
“We will lose ourselves together on the trail in the faraway place. ”
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When immersed in a good book, I often lose myself in the story's plot.
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Many people can lose themselves in the beauty of nature during a long hike.
Synonyms
22
5.1
To become so focused on something that you do not notice anything else
Antonyms
Idioms
- Informal
1
6.7
Become very anxious, confused, or upset and act in a way that does not make sense
- Informal
1
7.1
Get a small success but lose a bigger long-term goal
- Archaic
Act in a confused or uncontrolled way because of strong emotion
Phrasal Verbs
87
3.5
To stop being able to see a person or thing because something blocks your view
How Absorbed
Surface Forms
Etymology
Lose comes from an old root meaning 'be without', the same root as loss and lost. A helpful image for this sense is that to 'lose yourself' in a book or music is to be 'without' your usual awareness of the world around you.