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To help you avoid using the same word too repetitively, redundantly, recurrently, incessantly, etc., etc.

Why synonyms can be useful

Your writing can sound boring if you continually keep repeating the same words. When you create sentences, you can make them more interesting by using words that mean the same as the word you are speaking about. This allows you to add flavor to your writing.

In order to make language a lot more expressive and interesting you should try to vary the words you use as often as you can.

Synonyms for (verb) lose

Synonyms: suffer, lose Definition: be set at a disadvantage Usage: This author really suffers in translation

Hypernyms: worsen, decline Definition: grow worse Usage: Conditions in the slum worsened

Synonyms: drop off, recede, lose, fall back, fall behind Definition: retreat

Hypernyms: regress, retrograde, retrogress Definition: get worse or fall back to a previous condition

Synonyms: lose, mislay, misplace Definition: place (something) where one cannot find it again Usage: I misplaced my eyeglasses

Hypernyms: put, place, pose, position, set, lay Definition: put into a certain place or abstract location Usage: Put your things here; Set the tray down; Set the dogs on the scent of the missing children; Place emphasis on a certain point

Synonyms: lose Definition: suffer the loss of a person through death or removal Usage: She lost her husband in the war; The couple that wanted to adopt the child lost her when the biological parents claimed her

Hypernyms: suffer Definition: experience (emotional) pain Usage: Every time her husband gets drunk, she suffers