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verlies — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • bereavement noun The experience of losing a close family member or friend to death, and the grief that follows.
  • loss noun The state of no longer having something you once had.

Senses

verlies is used for these senses in English:

  • bereavement The state of being bereaved; deprivation; especially the loss of a relative by death.
  • loss (countable) Defeat; an instance of being defeated.
  • loss (uncountable) The condition of grief caused by losing someone or something, especially someone who has died.
  • loss (engineering) Electricity of kinetic power expended without doing useful work.

loss — full definition

  1. noun The state of no longer having something you once had.
  2. noun Defeat in a game, contest, or war.
  3. noun The grief felt after someone close to you dies.
  4. noun An amount of money spent or given up without a matching gain.

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