Impact
Impact verb - To act upon (a person or a person's feelings) so as to cause a response.
Nearby Words: impacted, impacting, impactless
Lose
Lose verb - To be unable to find or have at hand.
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
- Besides, the point being made is not that Lovecraft's racism discredits his whole work, but merely that it makes certain scenes lose their impact to the modern reader because of the laughter/fury/Flat "What." factor it causes.
Source: Narm / Literature - Many story elements meant to surprise the audience would lose impact if said audience weren't more or less blind to the fact they were about to be duped.
Source: Fiction Never Lies - Then he became director of wrestling operations of Impact and all was good until he saw the owner of the LA Clippers lose the team in a scandal and decided he wanted something that couldn't be so easily taken away.
Source: Money Is Not Power
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Lose or Impact. 2016. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/impact/lose.
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