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throw [s.o.] off the scent, Sl. shake [s.o.] off.
4. forfeit, default, give up, Inf give in, have enough, admit defeat, yield, yield the palm, Inf. say uncle, Inf throw in the towel; succumb, bow to, Inf tip the hat to, Sl. hand it to; bite or lick the dust, Sl. take the count; let slip through one's fingers, Sl. drop, Sl. kiss good-bye.
5. be defeated, get or have the worst of, come to grief, meet one's Waterloo, come off second best, Inf lose out; fall, fall flat. Inf. fall on one's face, Sl. fall down; fail, Sl. blow it, Inf. not work out, Inf. not make it, Inf not come off, Inf. flunk or flunk out, Sl. not hack it.
6. waste, squander, lavish, dissipate, deplete, consume, drain, pour down the drain, use up, exhaust; spend, expend, spend money like water, spend money as if it grew on trees, spend money like a drunken sailor, throw money around, run through money; fool away, fritter away, trifle away, fribble away.
7. depreciate, deteriorate, go to waste, come to nothing, come to naught, Inf. go up in smoke, Inf. go down the drain.
8. lose face be shamed, incur disgrace, fall into disrepute, earn a bad name, lose one's good name or reputation; disgrace oneself, demean oneself, degrade oneself, debase oneself, lower oneself, stoop.
9. lose ground fall behind, fall back, slip back, lag behind, get behind.
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lose heart despond, despair, give oneself up or over to despair, fall or sink into despair, lose hope, abandon hope, give up all hope; reach or plumb the depths, hit rock bottom, touch bottom, Sl. hit the pits.
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lose one's head lose control, take leave of one's senses, Inf go haywire; rage, explode, Sl. blow up, Sl. blow one's cool, Sl. blow a gasket or fuse, Sl. blow one's top or stack, Sl. flip, Sl. flip one's wig or lid, Sl. flip out, Sl. freak or freak out; fly into a passion, Inf fly off the handle, go into hysterics, have a tantrum, have a fit, Inf. have a conniption or conniption fit, Inf. have a cat fit, Inf hit the ceiling or roof, Sl. have a hemorrhage.
loser, n. 1. also-ran, runner-up, Inf. defeatee; the vanquished, the defeated; good loser, Inf. sport, good sport.
2. Informal, failure, lead balloon, Sl. flop, Sl. washout, Inf. dud, Sl. bomb, Inf. clunker, Inf. lemon, Sl. clinker, Inf. bummer, Sl. bust; two-time loser, threetime loser.
3. Slang, unfortunate, Inf born loser, fortune's fool, Inf Charlie Brown, Sl. sad sack, Sl. hard case or hard-luck case, Sl. schlemiel, Sl. schlimazel, Sl. dog.
loss, n. 1. detriment, disadvantage, prejudice; impairment, injury, damage, hurt, harm, disablement, incapacitation; step backward, regression, retrogression, lapse.
2. privation, deprivation, bereavement; sacrifice, denial, forfeiture; nonrestoration.
3. waste, wastage, depletion, dissolution, exhaustion, consumption, impoverishment; corrosion, erosion, ablation, wear and tear, wear, weathering.
4. destruction, ruin, undoing, perdition, total or complete or dead loss; breakdown, collapse; disrepair, dilapidation; wreckage.
5. at a loss a. at less than cost, at a financial loss, unprofitably, Inf to the bad.
b. perplexed, confounded, confused, bewildered, baffled, puzzled, mystified, nonplussed, Inf. beat, Inf. stuck, Inf stumped; at an impasse, at a standstill, at one's wit's end; in a dilemma, on the horns of a dilemma, in a quandary, between a rock and a hard place, between the devil and the deep blue sea, between Scylla and Chary bdis.
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