Lose
Lose verb - To be unable to find or have at hand.
Thumb
Common collocations
| face | lose face | thumb face |
Both words in one sentence
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Game-Breaking Injury: This is what made Conor's life change, as a thumb injury in a gaming competition caused him to lose and retire from competition.
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The Batman parody Bat Thumb had the Villain No-Face, who had no face, and whose evil plot was to disperse the same chemical which caused him to lose his face throughout the city.
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And it shows that when a nervous person is working with monofilament behind their back, someone's apt to lose a thumb.
Source: Conveniently Placed Sharp Thing
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Thumb and Lose. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 07, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/lose/thumb
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