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lose one's heart

lose one's heart verb: to fall in love with someone; to become smitten with someone.

Verb

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

  1. (dated, idiomatic) To fall in love with someone; to become smitten with someone.
  2. (idiomatic) To lose one's zeal or enthusiasm for something.
    • Meeting time has come and gone
      They'll lose their heart and head for home
      Try to tell us something we don't know1987 August 31, “Disturbance at the Heron House”, in Document, performed by R.E.M.

Forms of lose one's heart

third-person singular presentloses one's heart
present participlelosing one's heart
past participlelost one's heart
pastlost one's heart

Questions about lose one's heart

What does lose one's heart mean?
Lose one's heart means to fall in love with someone; to become smitten with someone.
What part of speech is lose one's heart?
Lose one's heart is a verb.
What is the past tense of lose one's heart?
The past tense of lose one's heart is lost one's heart.

Words near lose one's heart in the dictionary

  1. lose one's bearings
  2. lose one's bottle
  3. lose one's cookies
  4. lose one's cool
  5. lose one's head
  6. lose one's heart
  7. lose one's life
  8. lose one's lunch
  9. lose one's marbles
  10. lose one's mind
  11. lose one's nerve

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