Definitions
The act or fact of losing
Word origin
From Middle English los, from Old English los (“damage, destruction, loss”), from Proto-West Germanic *los, from Proto-Germanic *lusą (“dissolution, break-up, loss”), from Proto-Indo-European *lews- (“to cut, sunder, separate, loose, lose”).
Used in a sentence
“loss of limb; weight loss; loss of cognitive functions; loss of appetite.”
“People are less willing to take a risk to make a gain than to to avoid a loss.”
“In other areas, glacier loss creates serious risk of a dry period across the Third Pole, Wang said.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Opposite of profit”4 letters
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