| Main Entry: | loss |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | misfortune, deficit; something misplaced or lost |
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accident, bad luck, bereavement, calamity, casualty, cataclysm, catastrophe, cost, damage, death, debit, debt, defeat, deficiency, depletion, deprivation, destitution, destruction, detriment, disadvantage, disappearance, disaster, dispossession, failure, fall, fatality, forfeiture, harm, hurt, impairment, injury, losing, misadventure, mishap, mislaying, misplacing, need, perdition, privation, retardation, ruin, sacrifice, shrinkage, squandering, trial, trouble, undoing, want, waste, wreckage |
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accomplishment, achievement, success, win |
| Main Entry: | loss |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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| Concept: | Loss. |
| Category: | 1. Property in general |
Synonyms: |
-nouns
loss; deperdition, perdition; forfeiture, lapse., privation, bereavement; deprivation (dispossession); riddance; damage, squandering, waste.
-verbs
lose; incur a loss, experience a loss, meet with a loss; miss; mislay, let slip, allow to slip through the fingers; be without (exempt); forfeit., get rid of; waste., be lost; lapse.
-adjectives
losing; not having., shorn of, deprived of; denuded, bereaved, bereft, minus, cut off; dispossessed; rid of, quit of; out of pocket., lost; long lost; irretrievable (hopeless); off one's hands.
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Antonyms: |
acquisition, retention |
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| Main Entry: | abend |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | abnormal end of task |
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abort, crash, loss |
| Main Entry: | bankruptcy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | inability to pay debts |
Synonyms: |
Chapter 11, defalcation, default, destituteness, destitution, disaster, exhaustion, failure, indebtedness, indigence, insolvency, lack, liquidation, loss, nonpayment, overdraft, pauperism, privation, repudiation, ruin, ruination |
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richness, solvency, wealth |
| Main Entry: | bottom line |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | indispensable content |
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basis, conclusion, core, crux, determination, essence, fiber, final decision, fundamentals, income, key point, last word, loss, main idea, main point, main thing, meat and potatoes, name of the game, net, nitty-gritty, nuts and bolts, point, profit, reality, sum and substance, what it's all about, whole story |
| Main Entry: | casualty |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | victim |
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dead, death toll, fatality, injured, killed, loss, missing, prey, sufferer, wounded |
| Main Entry: | consumption |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | devouring; use |
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burning, consuming, damage, decay, decrease, depletion, desolation, destruction, devastation, diminution, dispersion, dissipation, drinking, eating, exhaustion, expenditure, loss, misuse, ruin, swallowing, using up, utilization, waste, wear and tear |
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fasting, starvation |
| Main Entry: | cost |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | penalty, sacrifice |
Synonyms: |
damage, deprivation, detriment, expense, forfeit, forfeiture, harm, hurt, injury, loss, suffering |
Antonyms: |
repayment, retribution |
| Main Entry: | death |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | end of life |
Synonyms: |
afterlife, annihilation, bereavement, casualty, cessation, curtains, darkness, decease, demise, departure, destruction, dissolution, downfall, dying, end, ending, eradication, eternal rest, euthanasia, exit, expiration, extermination, extinction, fatality, finis, finish, grave, grim reaper, heaven, loss, mortality, necrosis, obliteration, oblivion, paradise, parting, passing, passing over, quietus, release, repose, ruin, ruination, silence, sleep, termination, tomb |
Antonyms: |
being, birth, entity, existence, life, living |