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Lose sight of   /luz saɪt əv/   Listen
verb
Lose  v. t.  (past & past part. lost; pres. part. losing)  
1.
To part with unintentionally or unwillingly, as by accident, misfortune, negligence, penalty, forfeit, etc.; to be deprived of; as, to lose money from one's purse or pocket, or in business or gaming; to lose an arm or a leg by amputation; to lose men in battle. "Fair Venus wept the sad disaster Of having lost her favorite dove."
2.
To cease to have; to possess no longer; to suffer diminution of; as, to lose one's relish for anything; to lose one's health. "If the salt hath lost his savor, wherewith shall it be salted?"
3.
Not to employ; to employ ineffectually; to throw away; to waste; to squander; as, to lose a day; to lose the benefits of instruction. "The unhappy have but hours, and these they lose."
4.
To wander from; to miss, so as not to be able to and; to go astray from; as, to lose one's way. "He hath lost his fellows."
5.
To ruin; to destroy; as destroy; as, the ship was lost on the ledge. "The woman that deliberates is lost."
6.
To be deprived of the view of; to cease to see or know the whereabouts of; as, he lost his companion in the crowd. "Like following life thro' creatures you dissect, You lose it in the moment you detect."
7.
To fail to obtain or enjoy; to fail to gain or win; hence, to fail to catch with the mind or senses; to miss; as, I lost a part of what he said. "He shall in no wise lose his reward." "I fought the battle bravely which I lost, And lost it but to Macedonians."
8.
To cause to part with; to deprive of. (R.) "How should you go about to lose him a wife he loves with so much passion?"
9.
To prevent from gaining or obtaining. "O false heart! thou hadst almost betrayed me to eternal flames, and lost me this glory."
To lose ground, to fall behind; to suffer gradual loss or disadvantage.
To lose heart, to lose courage; to become timid. "The mutineers lost heart."
To lose one's head, to be thrown off one's balance; to lose the use of one's good sense or judgment, through fear, anger, or other emotion. "In the excitement of such a discovery, many scholars lost their heads." To lose one's self.
(a)
To forget or mistake the bearing of surrounding objects; as, to lose one's self in a great city.
(b)
To have the perceptive and rational power temporarily suspended; as, we lose ourselves in sleep. To lose sight of.
(a)
To cease to see; as, to lose sight of the land.
(b)
To overlook; to forget; to fail to perceive; as, he lost sight of the issue.





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"Lose sight of" Quotes from Famous Books



... capital voyage to San Francisco from the island, which we were glad enough to lose sight of, with its lava cliffs and cactus plants, and other strange belongings in the animal and vegetable world, and, above all, its sad memories and associations in other ways to us; and no more happy sailors ever landed ...
— The Island Treasure • John Conroy Hutcheson
... year 1844. A lady of fifty or thereabouts, for she looked older than her actual age, was pacing up and down one of the sunny paths in the garden of a great mansion in the Rue Plument in Paris. It was noon. The lady took two or three turns along the gently winding garden walk, careful never to lose sight of a certain row of windows, to which she seemed to give her whole attention; then she sat down on a bench, a piece of elegant semi-rusticity made of branches with the bark left on the wood. From the place where she sat she could ...
— A Woman of Thirty • Honore de Balzac
... not seem to lose sight of the fact that he was addressing his remarks to a school-teacher. While something of humor passed over his countenance at times, his attitude toward her was mainly sober and earnest. Janet, all absorbed in the subject of lambs, was in quite as serious a mood. She waited for him to continue; ...
— The Wrong Woman • Charles D. Stewart
... waited on my wife like this for ten years. Suddenly, one fine morning, picture to yourself, Arina—her name was Arina—rushes unannounced into my study, and flops down at my feet. That's a thing, I tell you plainly, I can't endure. No human being ought ever to lose sight of their personal dignity. Am I not right? What do you say? "Your honour, Alexandr Selitch, I beseech a favour of you." "What favour?" "Let me be married." I must confess I was taken aback. "But you know, you stupid, your mistress has no other lady's ...
— A Sportsman's Sketches - Works of Ivan Turgenev, Vol. I • Ivan Turgenev
... every moment I was afraid that I should not see the blue smoke curling up over the farm roofs any longer. The sheep could not find anything to eat, and ran about searching. I did not let them scatter too much. They looked like moving snow, and I was obliged to watch them closely so as not to lose sight of them. I managed to get them together in a meadow which skirted a big wood. The whole forest was busy getting rid of the snow which weighed it down. The big branches threw the snow off at one shake, while the others which were not so strong, stooped ...
— Marie Claire • Marguerite Audoux


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