losing

adj, noun — 3 senses

losing

adj

UK /ˈluːzɪŋ/ · CA, US /ˈluzɪŋ/

1

That loses or has lost.

Being on the losing team is disappointing.

Derived terms: fight a losing battle, losingest, losing hazard, losing line, losing streak, not win for losing, on a losing wicket

losing

noun

1

The process by which something is lost; a loss.

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:

losing

noun

1

Early, Modern Early Modern form of lozenge.

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