Giáo án tiếng Anh 12 - Lose /luːz/ verb

pany seems to have lost its way of late. 
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10. lose touch (with somebody/something) 
a) if two people lose touch, they gradually stop communicating, for example by no longer phoning or writing to 
each other: 
 - I’ve lost touch with all my old school friends. 
They lost touch when Di got married and moved away. 
b) if you lose touch with a situation or group, you are then no longer involved in it and so do not know about it or 
understand it: 
 - They claim the prime minister has lost touch with the party. 
 - It sometimes appears that the planners have lost touch with reality. 
11. lose your temper/cool/rag to become angry 
lose your temper/cool/rag with 
 - Diana was determined not to lose her temper with him. 
12. lose your head to become unable to behave calmly or sensibly: 
 - You’ve all heard that Nadal lost his head over a girl? 
13. lose your mind to become crazy = go crazy, go mad: 
 - Nicholas looked at her as if she’d lost her mind. 
14. lose it spoken informal 
a) to become very angry and upset: 
 - She completely lost it with one of the kids in class. 
b) ( also lose the plot) to become crazy or confused: 
 - I could see people thinking I’d totally lost the plot. 
15. lose yourself in something to be paying so much attention to something that you do not notice anything else: 
 - She listened intently to the music, losing herself in its beauty. 
16. ESCAPE [transitive] if you lose someone who is chasing you, you manage to escape from them: 
 - There’s a better chance of losing him if we take the back route. 
17. CONFUSE SOMEBODY [transitive] spoken informal to confuse someone when you are trying to explain 
something to them: 
 - Explain it again – you’ve lost me already. 
18. REMOVE SOMETHING [transitive] to remove a part or feature of something that is not necessary or wanted: 
 - You could lose the last paragraph to make it fit on one page. 
19 lose something in the translation/telling to be less good than the original form: 
The joke loses something in the translation. 
→ LOST 2, → lose count at COUNT 2 ( 3), → lose sleep over something at SLEEP 2 ( 4) 
lose out phrasal verb 
to not get something good, valuable etc because someone else gets it instead: 
 - The deal will ensure that shareholders do not lose out financially. 
lose out to 
 - He lost out to Roy Scheider for the lead role. 
lose out on 
 - Workers who don’t take up training may lose out on promotion. 
RELATED WORDS & EXPRESSIONS 
1. to be unable to find someone or something 
lose /luːz/ [transitive verb] to be unable to find something, especially because you cannot remember where you 
put it: ▪ If you lose your credit card, phone this number immediately.▪ ‘What are you looking for?’ ‘My purse. I 
think I might have lost it.’▪ Neil put the certificate in a drawer so he wouldn’t lose it. 
can’t find /ˌkɑːnt ˈfaɪndǁˌkænt-/ [verb phrase] to be unable to find something or someone, especially after you 
have spent a long time looking for them: ▪ She searched her pockets, but she couldn’t find the tickets.▪ What’s 
happened to Eric? I can’t find him anywhere. 
mislay /mɪsˈleɪ/ [transitive verb] formal to lose something for a short time, especially because you put it 
somewhere and then forgot where you put it: ▪ I seem to have temporarily mislaid my keys. Have you seen them 
anywhere?▪ If your bank card is lost, mislaid or stolen, call our Card Hotline number. 
loss /lɒsǁlɔːs/ [uncountable noun] formal the fact that you have lost something: ▪ The company cannot accept 
liability for loss or damage to a passenger’s property.the loss of something▪ You should report the loss of your 
passport to the consulate. 
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2. someone or something that you cannot find 
missing /ˈmɪsɪŋ/ [adjective] a missing object is lost and may have been stolen; a missing person cannot be found 
and may be in danger: ▪ She’s been missing for three days now, and we’re very worried.▪ The painting, which has 
been missing for almost half a century, only turned up when the owner of the house died. 
missing from▪ Police are ‘very concerned’ for the safety of a teenager who’s been missing from home for three 
days.▪ Two pages were missing from my copy of the report. 
go missing (from) British become lost or be stolen▪ A small sum of money went missing from the office last 
night.report somebody/something missing (from) tell someone in authority that someone or something is lost or 
stolen▪ The man had reported his girlfriend missing three days after she disappeared. 
lost /lɒstǁlɔːst/ [adjective] if something is lost, no-one knows where it is: ▪ I’ve looked everywhere for the car 
keys. I think they must be lost.▪ Divers are searching for the plane’s lost flight recorder. 
get lost▪ You haven’t gotten my letter yet? It must have gotten lost in the mail. 
disappear /ˌdɪsəˈpɪəʳ/ [intransitive verb] if something or someone disappears, they cannot be found and you think 
they may have been stolen or may be in danger: ▪ I thought I had a copy of the notes, but they seem to have 
disappeared somewhere.▪ The parents of an art student who disappeared in the middle of his exams have made an 
emotional plea for him to come home.disappear from▪ The letter had mysteriously disappeared from the file 
overnight. 
disappearance [countable/uncountable noun] ▪ It’s now three months since his disappearance. 
be nowhere to be seen/found /biː ˌnəʊweəʳ tə biː ˈsiːn, ˈfaʊnd/ [verb phrase] if someone or something is 
nowhere to be seen or nowhere to be found, you have looked everywhere for them but still cannot find them: ▪ 
Our tour guide was nowhere to be seen, so we set off to explore the city alone.▪ She’d looked everywhere for her 
glasses, but they were nowhere to be found. 
3. to lose a game, argument, election, war etc [thua / bại trận] 
lose /luːz/ [intransitive/transitive verb] to lose a game, competition, fight, or war: ▪ I always lose when I play 
tennis with my sister. 
lose a game/fight/election etc▪ Everyone expected the Democrats to lose the election.▪ The Chicago Bears lost 
their eighth game in a row they lost eight games, one after the other.lose to▪ England lost to Brazil in the final.▪ 
He lost his title unexpectedly to a man who is virtually unknown outside boxing circles. 
lose 3-2/by 1 goal/by 10 votes/by 20 points etc ▪ The Springboks lost by only three points to the All Blacks.▪ The 
match was lost 3 to 1. 
lose somebody the game/competition/election etc be the reason that someone lost▪ Many people think that the 
Democrats’ tax policies lost them the election. 
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be beaten /biː ˈbiːtn/ [verb phrase] to lose a game, competition, or race, often by a large amount or when you 
were expecting to win: ▪ In 37 fights, Lewis has only been beaten once.▪ Jake sure doesn’t like being beaten. 
be beaten by▪ The Barbarians were beaten in the quarter-finals by the Korean side.get beaten▪ We always seems 
to get beaten when we play in Europe. 
be defeated /biː dɪˈfiːt d/ [verb phrase] to lose an important or difficult battle, election, or game: ▪ Government 
forces took control of the town after the rebel forces were defeated. 
be defeated by▪ Last night, the Raiders were defeated by a superior team. 
be badly/heavily/decisively defeated be very badly defeated▪ He ran for Congress last year, but was decisively 
defeated.be narrowly defeated to lose but be very close to winning▪ The Democratic Party was narrowly defeated 
in the general election, and will form a coalition with the Congress party. 
defeat /dɪˈfiːt/ [countable/uncountable noun] when a person, team, or army is defeated in a game, competition, 
election, battle etc: ▪ It was the Christian Democratic Party’s fourth successive electoral defeat. 
defeat of▪ the defeat of Napoleon at the battle of Waterloosomebody’s defeat of somebody the fact that one 
person or team defeats another▪ Scotland’s defeat of Spainsomebody’s defeat by somebody the fact that one 
person or team is defeated by another▪ Mr Taylor blamed bad publicity for his defeat by Mr Jones. 
a crushing/humiliating/resounding defeat▪ The captain offered no excuses for his team’s humiliating defeat.▪ 
The New York Times described the withdrawal of troops as a resounding defeat for the government. 
suffer a defeat▪ She retired from the sport after suffering a series of humiliating defeats. 
meet your match /ˌmiːt jɔːʳ ˈmætʃ/ [verb phrase not in progressive] if a very good player, team etc meets their 
match, they are beaten by an even better player, team etc, especially after a long period during which they were 
never beaten: ▪ She’s a good player but she’ll meet her match when she plays Sara. [kỳ phùng địch thủ] 
meet your match in▪ I slowly started to realize I had met my match in Nigel. 
take a beating /ˌteɪk ə ˈbiːtɪŋ/ [verb phrase] to lose very badly in a game of football, tennis etc: ▪ ‘I hear you took 
a bit of a beating last night.’ ‘Yeah, we lost 12 -2.’ 
4. to stop trying to win 
admit/accept defeat /ədˌmɪt, əkˌsept dɪˈfiːt/ [verb phrase] to stop playing, fighting, or trying to succeed because 
you know you will lose, especially after you have struggled to succeed for a long time: ▪ The four climbers were 
eventually forced to admit defeat when weather conditions made it impossible to continue.▪ She simply refuses to 
accept defeat, no matter how bad things seem. 
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give in /ˌgɪv ˈɪn/ [intransitive phrasal verb] to stop playing, fighting, arguing etc because you know that you are 
not good enough to win: ▪ Marie’s stubborn, and she doesn’t give in easily. 
give in to▪ I figured if we gave in to them this time, they’d be back for another fight.▪ In the end, I had to give in 
to dad -- he’s usually right anyway. 
surrender /səˈrendəʳ/ [intransitive ve