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| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Error | Trip, stumble; lose oneself; (uncertainty); go astray; fail; be in the wrong box; take the wrong sow by the ear; (mismanage); put the saddle on the wrong horse; reckon without one's host; take the shadow for the substance; (credulity); dream; (imagine). |
Uncertainty | Not know what to make of; (unintelligibility), not know which way to turn, not know whether one stands on one s head or one's heels; float in a sea of doubt,hesitate, flounder; lose oneself, lose one's head; muddle one's brains. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Expression using "LOSE ONESELF": lose oneself in. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Language | Translations for "LOSE ONESELF"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | marr rrugë të shtrembër, humbas në mendime (brood over). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | فقد السيطرة (forget, fumble, spin out). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | обърквам се (become confused, get flurried, go wrong, stumble), обърквам пътя, загубвам се (wear out). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | ztratit se (astray, clear up, disappear, go, go away, make oneself scarce, stray). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | harhaantua. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | sich versenken in (become immersed in, lose oneself in). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | eltéved (to be on the wrong side of the post, to go astray, to go the wrong way, to go wrong, to lose one's way, to mistake the way, to stray, to take the wrong road, to take the wrong turning). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | perdere (be mislaid, be ruined, cast, get lost, leak, lose, mislay, Miss, pass up, ruin, shed, waste). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 無我夢中 (be absorbed in, lose oneself in). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | むがむちゅう (be absorbed in, lose oneself in). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | oselay oneselfay perder as estribeiras (go berserk). (various references) fi adâncit în (lose oneself in), fi absorbit de (lose oneself in). (various references) углубиться, затеряться, заблудиться (astray, go astray, lose bearings, wander). (various references) izgubiti se (die away). (various references) sufrir (bear a load, bleed, catch a tartar, come under, experience, go through, meet with, receive, suffer, sustain, take, trouble, undergo), perderse (be lost, fade away, fade out, fail, lose one's way, stray, waste), perder el hilo (ramble), padecer (bear, endure, have, know, suffer, suffer from, sustain, trouble, undergo), extraviarse (aberrate, err, get lost, go astray, go wrong, miscarry, straggle, stray, stray off, wander), errar el camino, ensimismarse (abstract, be lost in thought, get conceited). (various references) gå vilse (go astray, stray), försjunka (lapse, sink), förlora sig, förirra sig. (various references) kendini kaybetmek (be overwhelmed, blackout, fly off the handle, forget one's manners, lose consciousness), kendinden geçmek (be beside oneself, blackout, commune with oneself, get carried away, go into raptures, let one's hair down, lose consciousness, pass out). (various references) заглибитися. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-e-f-l-l-n-o-o-s-s" | |
-3 letters: fellness. | |
-4 letters: feeless, felloes, flenses, loosens, oneself. | |
-5 letters: felloe, felons, flense, folles, lenses, leones, lessee, lessen, lesson, loosen, looses, losels, nooses, selles, snells, snools, solons. | |
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| 1. Expressions 2. Translations: Modern 3. Anagrams 4. Bibliography |
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