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lose ground

lose ground verb: to suffer loss or disadvantage; to experience a setback.

Verb

lose ground (third-person singular simple present loses ground, present participle losing ground, simple past and past participle lost ground)

  1. (idiomatic) To suffer loss or disadvantage; to experience a setback.
    • He lost ground in his career due to his illness.
    • They are losing ground to foreign competitors every year.
    Antonyms:
    gain ground

lose ground meaning in Tamil

lose ground in Tamil

to lose ground, as in battle
பிற்கழி piṟkaḻi

Antonyms of lose ground

Forms of lose ground

third-person singular presentloses ground
present participlelosing ground
past participlelost ground
pastlost ground

Questions about lose ground

What does lose ground mean?
Lose ground means to suffer loss or disadvantage; to experience a setback.
What is lose ground in Tamil?
Lose ground in Tamil is பிற்கழி (piṟkaḻi). See Lose ground meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is lose ground?
Lose ground is a verb.
What is the past tense of lose ground?
The past tense of lose ground is lost ground.

Words near lose ground in the dictionary

  1. lose
  2. lose caste
  3. lose control
  4. lose count
  5. lose face
  6. lose ground
  7. lose heart
  8. lose her head
  9. lose his head
  10. lose it
  11. lose no time

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Adapted from Wiktionary: lose ground (page history and authors); பிற்கழி (Tamil) (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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