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lose heart

lose heart verb: to despair; to experience reduced morale; to become disheartened.

Verb

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

  1. (idiomatic) To despair; to experience reduced morale; to become disheartened.
    • There's nothing so humbling as being a dunce in a foreign tongue, and if it weren't for her compassion, we'd have lost heart after two weeks.2008, Sue Grafton, J is for Judgment, page 159
    Antonyms:
    take heart

lose heart meaning in Tamil, Bengali, Arabic and Thai

lose heart in Tamil

நம்பிக்கை விடு, மனந்தளர்

lose heart in Bengali

হতাশ হওয়া, মনোবল কমে যাওয়া, নিরুৎসাহিত হওয়া

lose heart in Arabic

to despair
يَئِسَ yaʔisa, أُحْبِطَ ʔuḥbiṭa

lose heart in Thai

to despair
ย่อท้อ
More languagesFewer languages
lose heart in Vietnamese
nản lòng

Antonyms of lose heart

Forms of lose heart

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

Questions about lose heart

What does lose heart mean?
Lose heart means to despair; to experience reduced morale; to become disheartened.
What is lose heart in Tamil?
Lose heart in Tamil is நம்பிக்கை விடு, மனந்தளர். See Lose heart meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is lose heart?
Lose heart is a verb.
What is the past tense of lose heart?
The past tense of lose heart is lost heart.

Words near lose heart in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: lose heart (page history and authors); lose heart (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); lose heart (Bengali Wiktionary) (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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