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lose sight of

lose sight of verb: to no longer be able to see (something).

Verb

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

  1. (idiomatic, transitive) To no longer be able to see (something).
    • The soldier lost sight of the enemy.
    • The double-track branch curves away southwards at the south end of the station and runs on a banked down gradient gradually losing sight of the main line.1958 July, P. J. Norris, “The Bexhill West Branch”, in Railway Magazine, page 496
  2. (idiomatic, transitive) To fail to remember; to overlook or neglect (something).
    • After he graduated from university he lost sight of his career goals.
    • Smith warns: "You must not lose sight of the fact that not everyone can do contactless payment and mobile ticketing. Not everyone has a bank account, not everyone can use a smartphone, not everyone works cashless.2022 March 9, Paul Clifton, “RAIL Supplement: Reimagining and rebooting the passenger railway”, in RAIL, number 952, page 6 (supplement)

lose sight of meaning in Kannada

lose sight of in Kannada

ಮರೆತುಬಿಡು, ವಿಸ್ಮೃತಿ ಹೊಂದು

Forms of lose sight of

third-person singular presentloses sight of
present participlelosing sight of
past participlelost sight of
pastlost sight of

Questions about lose sight of

What does lose sight of mean?
Lose sight of means to no longer be able to see (something).
What is lose sight of in Kannada?
Lose sight of in Kannada is ಮರೆತುಬಿಡು, ವಿಸ್ಮೃತಿ ಹೊಂದು. See Lose sight of meaning in Kannada.
What part of speech is lose sight of?
Lose sight of is a verb.
What is the past tense of lose sight of?
The past tense of lose sight of is lost sight of.

Words near lose sight of in the dictionary

  1. lose one's way
  2. lose one's wits
  3. lose oneself
  4. lose out
  5. lose patience
  6. lose sight of
  7. lose sleep
  8. lose steam
  9. lose the battle, but win the war
  10. lose the bell
  11. lose the bubble

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Adapted from Wiktionary: lose sight of (page history and authors); lose sight of (Kannada 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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