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lost heart

lost heart is the simple past and past participle 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 lost heart

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

Words near lost heart in the dictionary

  1. lost face
  2. lost for words
  3. Lost Forty
  4. lost generation
  5. lost ground
  6. lost heart
  7. lost highway
  8. Lost Hills
  9. lost in action
  10. lost in the sauce
  11. lost in the shuffle

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