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Synonyms of the word 
LOSS → AMOUNT - CASUALTY - DEATH - DECEASE - DECLINE - DEPARTURE - DEPRIVATION - DIMINUTION - DISADVANTAGE - EXIT - EXPERIENCE - EXPIRATION - EXPIRY - FAILURE - GOING - PASSING - RED - RELEASE - SUMloss- n. an instance of losing, such as a defeat.
- n. The result of an alteration in a function or characteristic of the body, or of its previous integrity.
- n. the hurtful condition of having lost something or someone, particularly in death.
- n. (in the plural) casualties, especially physically eliminated victims of violent conflict.
- n. (financial) the sum an entity loses on balance.
- n. destruction, ruin.
- n. (engineering) electricity of kinetic power expended without doing useful work.
- v. (colloquial) Alternative spelling of lost.
amount- n. The total, aggregate or sum of material (not applicable to discrete numbers or units or items in standard…
- n. A quantity or volume.
- n. (nonstandard, sometimes proscribed) The number (the sum) of elements in a set.
- v. (intransitive, followed by to) To total or evaluate.
- v. (intransitive, followed by to) To be the same as or equivalent to.
- v. (obsolete, intransitive) To go up; to ascend.
casualty- n. (obsolete) Chance nature; randomness.
- n. Something that happens by chance, especially an unfortunate event; an accident, a disaster.
- n. A person suffering from injuries or who has been killed due to an accident or through an act of violence.
- n. (Britain) The accident and emergency department of a hospital.
death- n. The cessation of life and all associated processes; the end of an organism's existence as an entity independent…
- n. (often capitalized) The personification of death as a hooded figure with a scythe; the Grim Reaper.
- n. (the death) The collapse or end of something.
decease- n. (formal) Death, departure from life.
- v. (now rare) To die.
decline- n. Downward movement, fall.
- n. A sloping downward, e.g. of a hill or road.
- n. A weakening.
- n. A reduction or diminution of activity.
- v. (intransitive) To move downwards, to fall, to drop.
- v. (intransitive) To become weaker or worse.
- v. (transitive) To bend downward; to bring down; to depress; to cause to bend, or fall.
- v. (transitive) To cause to decrease or diminish.
- v. To turn or bend aside; to deviate; to stray; to withdraw.
- v. (transitive) To refuse, forbear.
- v. (transitive, grammar, usually of substantives, adjectives and pronouns) To inflect for case, number and…
- v. (by extension) To run through from first to last; to repeat like a schoolboy declining a noun.
- v. (American football, Canadian football) To reject a penalty against the opposing team, usually because…
departure- n. The act of departing or something that has departed.
- n. A deviation from a plan or procedure.
- n. (euphemistic) A death.
- n. (navigation) The distance due east or west made by a ship in its course reckoned in plane sailing as the…
- n. (law) The desertion by a party to any pleading of the ground taken by him in his last antecedent pleading,…
- n. (obsolete) Division; separation; putting away.
deprivation- n. (countable) The act of depriving, dispossessing, or bereaving; the act of deposing or divesting of some…
- n. (uncountable) The state of being deprived; privation; loss; want; bereavement.
- n. (countable) The taking away from a clergyman of his benefice, or other spiritual promotion or dignity.
- n. (followed by “of”) lack.
diminution- n. A lessening, decrease or reduction.
- n. The act or process of making diminutive.
- n. (music) a compositional technique where the composer shortens the melody by shortening its note values.
disadvantage- n. A weakness or undesirable characteristic; a con.
- n. A setback or handicap.
- n. Loss; detriment; hindrance.
- v. (transitive) To place at a disadvantage.
exit- n. A way out.
- n. A passage or gate from inside someplace to the outside, outgang.
- n. The action of leaving.
- n. Death.
- v. To go out.
- v. To leave.
- v. To die.
experience- n. (countable, uncountable) Event(s) of which one is cognizant.
- n. (countable) An activity which one has performed.
- n. (countable) A collection of events and/or activities from which an individual or group may gather knowledge,…
- n. (uncountable) The knowledge thus gathered.
- v. (transitive) To observe certain events; undergo a certain feeling or process; or perform certain actions…
expiration- n. The act of expiring.
- n. The act or process of breathing out, or forcing air from the lungs through the nose or mouth.
- n. Emission of volatile matter; exhalation.
- n. (euphemistic) The last emission of breath; death.
- n. A cessation, extinction, ending.
- n. That which is produced by breathing out, as a sound.
expiry- n. (Britain) end, termination, expiration.
- n. (Britain) death.
failure- n. State or condition of not meeting a desirable or intended objective, opposite of success.
- n. An object, person or endeavour in a state of failure or incapable of success.
- n. Termination of the ability of an item to perform its required function, breakdown.
going- v. present participle of go.
- n. A departure.
- n. The suitability of ground for riding, walking etc.
- n. progress.
- n. (figuratively) Conditions for advancing in any way.
- n. (obsolete) pregnancy; gestation; childbearing.
- n. (in the plural) Course of life; behaviour; doings; ways.
- adj. Likely to continue; viable.
- adj. That attends habitually or regularly.
- adj. Current, prevailing.
- adj. (especially after a noun phrase with a superlative) Available.
passing- v. present participle of pass.
- adj. That passes away; ephemeral.
- adj. (now rare, literary) Pre-eminent, excellent, extreme.
- adj. vague, cursory.
- adj. going past - passing cars.
- adv. (now literary or archaic) Surpassingly, greatly.
- n. Death, dying; the end of something.
- n. The fact of going past; a movement from one place to another or a change from one state to another.
- n. (law) The act of approving a bill etc.
- n. (sports) The act of passing a ball etc. to another player.
- n. A form of juggling where several people pass props between each other, usually clubs or rings.
red- adj. Having red as its color.
- adj. (of hair) Having an orange-brown colour; ginger.
- adj. (card games, of a card) Of the hearts or diamonds suits. Compare black (“of the spades or clubs suits”).
- adj. (often capitalized) Left-wing, especially socialist or communist.
- adj. (US, modern) Supportive of or dominated by the political party represented by the color red, especially…
- adj. (chiefly derogatory, offensive) Amerind; relating to Amerindians or First Nations.
- adj. (US, modern) Of, pertaining to, or run by (a member of) the political party represented by the color red,…
- adj. (Britain) Supportive of the Labour Party.
- adj. (politics) Related to the Social Democratic Party of Germany.
- adj. (astronomy) Of the lower-frequency region of the (typically visible) part of the electromagnetic spectrum…
- adj. (particle physics) Having a color charge of red.
- n. (countable and uncountable) Any of a range of colours having the longest wavelengths, 670 nm, of the visible…
- n. (countable) A revolutionary socialist or (most commonly) a Communist; (usually capitalized) a Bolshevik,…
- n. (countable, snooker) One of the 15 red balls used in snooker, distinguished from the colours.
- n. (countable and uncountable) Red wine.
- n. (derogatory, offensive) An Amerind.
- n. (slang) The drug secobarbital; a capsule of this drug.
- n. (informal) A red light (a traffic signal).
- n. (Ireland, Britain, beverages, informal) red lemonade.
- n. (particle physics) One of the three color charges for quarks.
- n. (US, colloquial, uncountable) chili con carne (usually in the phrase "bowl of red").
- v. (archaic) simple past tense and past participle of rede.
- v. (colloquial) Alternative spelling of redd.
- v. (transitive, Pennsylvania) Alternative spelling of redd.
release- n. The event of setting (someone or something) free (e.g. hostages, slaves, prisoners, caged animals, hooked…
- n. (software) The distribution of an initial or new and upgraded version of a computer software product;…
- n. Anything recently released or made available (as for sale).
- n. That which is released, untied or let go.
- n. (biochemistry) The process by which a chemical substance is set free.
- n. (phonetics, sound synthesis) The act or manner of ending a sound.
- n. (railways, historical) In the block system, a printed card conveying information and instructions to be…
- n. A device adapted to hold or release a device or mechanism as required.
- v. To let go (of); to cease to hold or contain.
- v. To make available to the public.
- v. To free or liberate; to set free.
- v. To discharge.
- v. (telephony) (of a call) To hang up.
- v. (law) To let go, as a legal claim; to discharge or relinquish a right to, as lands or tenements, by conveying…
- v. To loosen; to relax; to remove the obligation of.
- v. (soccer) To set up; to provide with a goal-scoring opportunity.
- v. (biochemistry) To set free a chemical substance.
- v. (transitive) To lease again; to grant a new lease of; to let back.
sum- n. A quantity obtained by addition or aggregation.
- n. (often plural) An arithmetic computation, especially one posed to a student as an exercise (not necessarily…
- n. A quantity of money.
- n. A summary; the principal points or thoughts when viewed together; the amount; the substance; compendium.
- n. A central idea or point.
- n. The utmost degree.
- n. (obsolete) An old English measure of corn equal to the quarter.
- v. (transitive) To add together.
- v. (transitive) To give a summary of.
- n. The basic unit of money in Kyrgyzstan.
- n. The basic unit of money in Uzbekistan.
- pron. (African American Vernacular) Eye dialect spelling of some.
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