LOSE IT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does lose it mean? 

• LOSE IT (verb)
  The verb LOSE IT has 1 sense:

1. lose control of one's emotions

  Familiarity information: LOSE IT used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LOSE IT (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Lose control of one's emotions

Classified under:

Verbs of feeling

Synonyms:

break down; lose it; snap

Context example:

When her baby died, she snapped

Hypernyms (to "lose it" is one way to...):

act; behave; do (behave in a certain manner; show a certain behavior; conduct or comport oneself)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "lose it"):

dissolve (lose control emotionally)

die (be brought to or as if to the point of death by an intense emotion such as embarrassment, amusement, or shame)

fall apart; go to pieces (lose one's emotional or mental composure)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Sentence example:

Sam and Sue lose it

 Context examples 

Infants have brown fat when they're born, but we lose it as we age.

(Nanoparticles target, transform fat tissue, NIH)

“I have laid all that I intend; but I don’t think my man can lose it.”

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Do not let me lose it.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

I made a shift to keep the key in a pocket of my own, fearing Glumdalclitch might lose it.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

His friendship was of value to me: to lose it tried me severely.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

When you get a dollar, hang on to it. A man who leaves his money lying around, the way you did, deserves to lose it.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Certain it is, that the living became vacant two years ago, exactly as I was of an age to hold it, and that it was given to another man; and no less certain is it, that I cannot accuse myself of having really done anything to deserve to lose it.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Does the white man like tobacco? I do not know. But if he likes tobacco, why does he spit out its value and lose it in the snow? It is a great foolishness and without understanding.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

Of Sophy telling us that when she saw Traddles (whom I had entrusted with the licence) asked for it, she almost fainted, having been convinced that he would contrive to lose it, or to have his pocket picked.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Lord Ravenshaw, in Cornwall, which would of course have immortalised the whole party for at least a twelvemonth! and being so near, to lose it all, was an injury to be keenly felt, and Mr. Yates could talk of nothing else.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)