v.
1.fail to keep or to maintain
2.fail to win
3.suffer the loss of a person through death or removal
4.place (something) where one cannot find it again
5.miss from one's possessions
6.allow to go out of sight
7.fail to make money in a business
8.fail to get or obtain
9.retreat 10.fail to perceive or to catch with the senses or the mind 11.be set at a disadvantage
Idiom of the Day
take (someone) down a notch/peg or two
to reprimand or scold someone who is acting arrogant, to make someone less proud or sure of himself or herself
The manager took the secretary down a notch or two with his criticism of her work.