lose
Naija
Etymology
From: English lose.
Pronunciation
- lûz
Frequency
- Frequency in NSC treebank: 5
- Frequency rank in NSC treebank: 1160
- Frequency in raw corpus: 686
- Frequency rank in raw corpus: 496
Verb
- Make someting no come well again.
- Make someting comot for person hand without say person want am to.
- Di goat lose imsef, con run enter road. — (Egbokhare_2020. The goat esaped and found itself on the road.)
- Funny ways some people take lose dia job — (bbc__53301, The funny ways some persons lost their jobs.)
- make person die.
- Lose husband, lose pikin. — (NST_cleaned__6168. The husband and child died.)
- Make someting cut.
- E no easy to lose your leg or hand. — (bbc__44936. It is not easy for one's hand and leg to be cut off.)
- No need for anybody to lose dia life. — (bbc__22115. Its not easy to die.)
- Na make person go mad.
- E lose di head. — (BEN_32_I-Don-Tire-For-All-Dese-Boys_DG__131, He became insane.)
- She lose evritin wen wata cari her house go for Gundu. — (bbc__60861. )
- Pipo wey dem keep for di centre dey lose all energy, Im add. — (bbc__58100, __no translation__)
- Oga Kamara don congratulate im rival but im neva gree accept say im lose. — (bbc__76692, __no translation__)
- Four things na: Who let am come die for us, why e let am come, wetin e lose, and wetin the death do for our body. — (jw__12635, __no translation__)
- l dey greet you sorry for wetin you don lose. — (bbc__65503, __no translation__)
- Whether na government or na di AFN get di blame, na Nigeria dey lose. — (bbc__99905, __no translation__)
- How to be di 'Total Man' by Covenant University Graduate wey sue Oxford University for 2:1 degree don lose — (bbc__78284, __no translation__)
Related forms
Synonyms
Antonyms
- loose 0.83 110, win 0.72 3213, kolobi 0.70 233, lost 0.70 159, score 0.67 1191, concede 0.66 10, leave 0.63 1444, beat 0.62 932, qualify 0.61 442
Translations
- English: lossen,slack, slacken