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losing heart

losing heart is the present participle and gerund of lose heart.

Meaning of lose heart

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

Questions about losing heart

What is losing heart the present participle and gerund of?
Losing heart is the present participle and gerund of lose heart.

Words near losing heart in the dictionary

  1. losing count
  2. losing face
  3. losing ground
  4. losing hazard
  5. losing hazards
  6. losing heart
  7. losing it
  8. losing line
  9. losing lines
  10. losing no time
  11. losing one's balance

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