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  1. verb Past tense and past participle of lose.
  2. adjective Unable to find one's way: a lost child.
  3. adjective No longer in the possession, care, or control of someone or something: a lost pen.

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  • And now it was gone--lost, as it seemed, beyond hope; and that which was left to me was but the empty frame from which the picture had vanished I have no idea how long I stood rooted to the spot where she had left me, wrapped in a dull consciousness of pain, immersed in a half-numb reverie. —  The Eye of Osiris
  • She was lost--lost--lost utterly The knowledge sank into her like ice. —  The Lost Girl
  • Among the lost was my wife, who never rose above the water after the wreck of the building I was nearly drowned and became unconscious, but recovered through being crushed by the timbers and found myself clinging to my youngest child, who had gone down with myself and my wife. —  The Boy with the U. S. Weather Men
  • She was confident that they were lost--lost beyond possibility of succor Presently Clayton awoke. —  Return of Tarzan
  • The first thing we knew we were lost--lost in the howling wilderness. —  The Easiest Way A Story of Metropolitan Life
 

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