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förlora

“förlora” is a Swedish word. Its 7 meanings in English:

verb

  1. to lose (a competition, fight, or the like)
  2. to lose (involuntarily lose possession of something concrete or abstract)
  3. to lose (a relative or friend or the like, through them dying, having a falling out, or the like)
  4. to be lost (be involuntarily destroyed or lost from possession or the like)
  5. to lose (in value)
  6. to lose out, to lose (lose by doing something or from something, have to one's detriment)
  7. to lose oneself (become (sometimes too) deeply focused on)

Etymology

From Middle Low German vorloren (German verloren), the past participle of vorlêsen (“to lose”), from Old Saxon farliosan, from Proto-West Germanic *fraleusan, from Proto-Germanic *fraleusaną. Doublet of förlisa. Compare Afrikaans verloor.

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