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Loss
Loss noun - Failure to win a contest.
Usage example: we're discouraged by our loss on Friday, but we're training hard for next week's game nevertheless
Nearby Word: losing
Mutual synonyms
How words are described
| complete | complete collapse | complete loss |
| instant | instant collapse | instant loss |
| total | total collapse | total loss |
| actual | actual collapse | actual loss |
| Other adjectives: massive, great, slow, partial, gradual, major, immediate, general, final, catastrophic, apparent, temporary, further, inevitable, subsequent, impending, eventual, rapid, recent, sudden, resulting, financial. | ||
Both words in one sentence
- The threat of blood loss or collapse is as much a threat as the bad guy slapping him about and telling him he's failed and that he's not that invincible after all.
Source: You Can Barely Stand -
Law of Disproportionate Response: Buster seems far more perturbed by the loss of his lifeboat (which he promptly replaces with a bathtub) than the collapse of his house.
Source: Film / The Boat - She and the other Normas (and a few formerly-Mana-using sympathizers) can go to the DRAGON world, while everyone else deals with the collapse of civilization and the loss of Mana.
Source: It Is Beyond Saving
Cite this Source
Loss and Collapse. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 22, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/collapse/loss
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