losing
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈluːzɪŋ/
- Hyphenation: los‧ing
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -uːzɪŋ
Adjective
losing (not comparable)
- That loses or has lost.
- Being on the losing team is disappointing.
Derived terms
Noun
losing (plural losings)
- The process by which something is lost; a loss.
- 1842, The United States Magazine and Democratic Review (page 339)
- We conceive that an alternation of such losings and regainings will continue to be presented in England, until the whole business is set on a new and more stable basis by a revolution which shall not be moral only.
- 1842, The United States Magazine and Democratic Review (page 339)
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