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get lost

get lost interjection: used to rudely tell somebody to go away or leave one alone.

Interjection

  1. (colloquial, impolite, dismissal) Used to rudely tell somebody to go away or leave one alone.

Verb

get lost (third-person singular simple present gets lost, present participle getting lost, simple past got lost, past participle (UK) got lost or (US) gotten lost)

  1. (intransitive) To lose one's way.
    • Don't you have a map? How did we get lost?
    • I got lost in his reasoning.
  2. (intransitive) To go missing; to be in a location unknown to someone who is looking for it.
    • My keys got lost while I was out today.
  3. (intransitive) To be absent, to seem to be absent.
    • The violins get lost with the rest of the music.
  4. (idiomatic, intransitive, usually in imperative and reported speech) To exit from the scene.
    • I don't want to have to tell you again: Get lost!
    • They had a row and Fred told Jack to get lost.

get lost meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Malayalam

get lost in Hindi

go away! — see also go away
दफ़ा हो जा dafā ho jā

get lost in Tamil

go away! — see also go away
போய்த்தொலை pōyttolai, ஒழிந்துபோ oḻintupō, போ pō
lose one's way
தொலை tolai, தொலைந்து போ tolaintu pō
to go missing
காணாமல் போ kāṇāmal pō

get lost in Urdu

go away! — see also go away
دفع ہو dafa ho
lose one's way
گم جانا gum jānā

get lost in Malayalam

to get lost
തുലയുക tulayuka
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get lost in Punjabi
ਪਰਾਂ ਮਰ parā̃ mar, ਦਫ਼ਾ ਹੋ dafā ho, ਦਫ਼ਾ ਹੋ ਜਾ dafā ho jā, ਜਾ ਮਰ jā mar
get lost in Tagalog
maligaw
get lost in Arabic
اُغْرُب عَن وَجْهِي! uḡrub ʕan wajhī!, إِبْتَعِد عَنِّي! ʔibtaʕid ʕannī!, أُغْرُبِي عَن وَجْهِي ʔuḡrubī ʕan wajhī, إِبْتَعِدِي عَنِّي ʔibtaʕidī ʕannī
get lost in Malay
pergi mampus
get lost in Indonesian
tersesat
get lost in Persian
گم شو gom šow, گم شدن gom šodan
get lost in Vietnamese
phắn, biến, cút, xéo

Synonyms of get lost

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Forms of get lost

third-person singular presentgets lost
present participlegetting lost
pastgot lost
past participle UKgot lost
past participle USgotten lost

Questions about get lost

What does get lost mean?
Get lost means used to rudely tell somebody to go away or leave one alone.
What is get lost in Hindi?
Get lost in Hindi is दफ़ा हो जा (dafā ho jā). See Get lost meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is get lost?
Get lost can be an interjection or a verb.

Words near get lost in the dictionary

  1. get jiggy
  2. get knotted
  3. get laid
  4. get late
  5. get life
  6. get lost
  7. get lucky
  8. get Mario Karted
  9. get married
  10. get medieval
  11. get misty

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Adapted from Wiktionary: get lost (page history and authors); തുലയുക (Malayalam) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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