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LOSE ONESELF

Synonyms within Context: LOSE ONESELF

ContextSynonyms 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.

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Expression: LOSE ONESELF

Expression using "LOSE ONESELF": lose oneself in. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: LOSE ONESELF

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

   

Portuguese

  

perder as estribeiras (go berserk). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

fi adâncit în (lose oneself in), fi absorbit de (lose oneself in). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

углубиться, затеряться, заблудиться (astray, go astray, lose bearings, wander). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

izgubiti se (die away). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

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)

   

Swedish

  

gå vilse (go astray, stray), försjunka (lapse, sink), förlora sig, förirra sig. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

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)

   

Ukrainian

  

заглибитися. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: LOSE ONESELF

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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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2. Translations: Modern
3. Anagrams
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