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lost count

lost count is the simple past and past participle of lose count.

Meaning of lose count

Verb

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

  1. (idiomatic, intransitive) To forget the number of times that something has happened; to lose the tally.
    • I have lost count of the number of girls I have kissed.
    Antonyms:
    keep count

Questions about lost count

What is lost count the simple past and past participle of?
Lost count is the simple past and past participle of lose count.

Words near lost count in the dictionary

  1. lost cause
  2. lost causes
  3. Lost City
  4. Lost Colony
  5. lost control
  6. lost count
  7. Lost Creek
  8. Lost Dakota
  9. lost decade
  10. lost decades
  11. lost errand

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Adapted from Wiktionary: lost count (page history and authors); lose count (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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