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know your verbs my name is Alicia and in

this episode we’re going to talk about

the verb lose so let’s get started

so the basic definition of this verb is

to miss something from your possessions

or to miss something from its typical or

its regular location for example I lost

my keys I always lose a sock in the

laundry so let’s look at the

conjugations of this verb present lose

loses past lost past participle lost

progressive losing so now let’s talk

about some additional meanings of this

verb the first additional meaning of

this is to suffer because of no longer

having something so examples of this I

lost my father in the war she lost her

arm in a terrible accident so in both of

these situations there’s a serious loss

they’re serious suffering in the first

example I lost my father it means my

father died in the war in the second

example she lost her arm in a terrible

accident it means she was separated from

her arm like her arm was so badly

injured that she no longer had it as a

result of the accident so these are

serious situations of suffering or

serious problems the second meaning is

to fail to use to fail to use something

so let’s look at some examples I lost so

much money on this project and you’re

gonna lose a lot of time if you don’t

work more efficiently

okay so in the first one I lost so much

money on this project meaning I failed

to use money effectively or failed to

use my money in a good way in this

project I lost money as a result of this

project in the second example you’re

gonna lose a lot of time so in other

words you’re not going to use your time

efficiently you’re going to fail to use

your time well in other words meeting

three let’s go on to the third meaning

the third meaning is to fail to maintain

to fail to maintain something like to

fail to maintain your like mental state

for example home let’s look examples she

lost her mind when she saw her bank

account had been emptied and he ran too

fast and lost his breath so the first

one she lost her mind it doesn’t mean

like her head was separated from her

body it means she lost control of she

could not maintain her mental state her

mental condition because something else

happened like she lost her mind when she

saw her bank account had been emptied

like she went crazy oh my gosh it was a

such a surprising situation she lost her

mind she lost control in the second

example sentence he lost his breath

because of running so he could not

control his breathing but we say it lost

my breath or he lost his breath so that

means he could not maintain his

breathing

the fourth meaning is to get rid of

something to get rid of something so we

see this in examples like you really

need to lose some weight

oh and and we lost our attackers by

hiding under a bush you really need to

lose some weight so meaning you need to

get rid of some weight from your body

you need to like remove weight from your

body in the second example we lost our

attackers means like we were separated

we were able to separate ourselves we

were able to remove the attackers from

us because we like we hid under a bush

in this case I don’t know the situation

but either way you’re separating from

something else you’re removing yourself

from something else losing weight or

losing your attack

in this case

let’s go on to some variations of this

verb then alright first variation the

first variation is to lose one’s lunch

to lose one’s lunch this is an

expression we use that means to vomit

means to throw up to lose your lunch

examples of this I’m about to lose my

lunch and someone lost their lunch on

the airplane so in that second sentence

it doesn’t mean that like someone forgot

lunch in their seat on the airplane this

is an expression that we use to mean

someone vomited on an airplane someone

lost their lunch on an airplane but it

sounds less disgusting to say lose your

lunch it’s like because the idea is like

you ate lunch and then it came back up

and you lost it it was separated from

you you lost your lunch that’s the

that’s the idea

we don’t say lost your breakfast we

don’t say lost your dinner we only say

lunch I don’t know why but that’s the

expression it’s always lost my lunch

always lost my lunch so it means to

vomit to throw up you okay

the last variation for this verb is to

lose it to lose it where it is your

emotional control to lose it so to lose

it means to go crazy to lose your

emotional control so examples of this my

mom lost it when I said I’d spent all

her money hmm

and the second example my boss is gonna

lose it when he finds out we didn’t meet

our goals for the month okay so in these

sentences we see in the first one my mom

lost it means my mom lost her emotional

control she was no longer able to

maintain her emotional control so she

lost it so it is emotional control in

the second sentence my boss is gonna

lose it meaning in the future my boss is

gonna go crazy in a bad way when he sees

that we didn’t meet our sales goals so

my boss is going to lose his emotional

control he’s gonna lose it so it’s quite

a casual expression that means like to

go crazy for a bad reason awesome

so those are a few ways to use the verb

lose that maybe you didn’t know before

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