Verb

To cause (something) to cease to be in one's possession or capability due to unfortunate or unknown circumstances, events or reasons.

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To wander from; to miss, so as not to be able to find; to go astray from.

I lost my way in the forest.

* Shakespeare

He hath lost his fellows.

To have (an organ) removed from one's body, especially by accident.

To fail to win (a game, competition, trial, etc).

* Dryden

I fought the battle bravely which I lost , / And lost it but to Macedonians.

To shed (weight).

To experience the death of (someone to whom one has an attachment, such as a relative or friend).

To be unable to follow or trace (somebody or something) any longer.

To cause (somebody) to be unable to follow or trace one any longer.

(informal) To shed, remove, discard, or eliminate.

Of a clock, to run slower than expected.

To cause (someone) the loss of something; to deprive of.

* Baxter

O false heart! thou hadst almost betrayed me to eternal flames, and lost me this glory.

* 2002 , , The Great Nation , Penguin 2003, p. 556:

This lost Catholicism any semblance of a claim to special status, and also highlighted the gains which other religious formations had derived from the Revolution.

To fail to catch with the mind or senses; to miss.

I lost a part of what he said.

(archaic) To cause to part with; to deprive of.

* Sir W. Temple

How should you go about to lose him a wife he loves with so much passion?

Verb

(pos)

To place in an attitude or fixed position, for the sake of effect.

To pose a model for a picture.

Ask; set (a test, quiz, riddle, etc.).

To constitute (a danger, a threat, a risk, etc.).

* 2010 , Noam Chomsky, The Iranian threat , Z Magazine, vol 23, number 7:

Rather, they are concerned with the threat Iran poses to the region and the world.

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* 2014 , Ian Black, " Courts kept busy as Jordan works to crush support for Isis", The Guardian , 27 November 2014:

The threat the most radical of them pose is evidently far greater at home than abroad: in one characteristically slick and chilling Isis video – entitled “a message to the Jordanian tyrant” – a smiling, long-haired young man in black pats the explosive belt round his waist as he burns his passport and his fellow fighters praise the memory of Zarqawi, who was killed in Iraq in 2006.

Assume or maintain a pose; strike an attitude.

* Thackeray

He posed before her as a hero.

(obsolete) To interrogate; to question.

* Francis Bacon

She posed him and sifted him.

(obsolete) To question with a view to puzzling; to embarrass by questioning or scrutiny; to bring to a stand.

* Barrow

A question wherewith a learned Pharisee thought to pose and puzzle him.

Verb

(pos)

(obsolete) To ask (someone) questions; to interrogate.

* 1526 , William Tyndale, trans. Bible , Luke II:

And hit fortuned that after .iii. dayes, they founde hym in the temple sittinge in the middes of the doctours, both hearynge them, and posinge them.

to puzzle, non-plus, or embarrass with difficult questions.

To perplex or confuse (someone).