perder — meaning in English
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English meaning
- abort verb To stop an action, plan, or process before it is finished, usually because of a problem.
- break verb To separate something into pieces by force, often suddenly.
- forfeit verb To lose or give up something as a penalty for breaking a rule or agreement.
- lose verb To no longer have something you once had, whether by accident, carelessness, or misfortune.
- misplace verb To lose track of something by forgetting where it was put.
- miss verb To fail to hit, catch, reach, or make contact with something.
Senses
perder is used for these senses in English:
- abort (transitive, biology) To cause an organism to develop minimally; to cause rudimentary development to happen; to prevent maturation. [First attested in the mid 19th century.]
- break (intransitive, of a voice) To alter in type due to emotion or strain: in men, generally to go up, in women, sometimes to go down; to crack.
- forfeit To suffer the loss of something by wrongdoing or non-compliance
- lose (transitive) To shed (weight).
- lose (transitive) To be unable to follow or trace (somebody or something) any longer.
- misplace (transitive) To put something somewhere and then forget its location; to mislay.
- miss out (intransitive, or, transitive with 'on') To miss an experience or lose an opportunity, etc. that should not be missed.
abort — full definition
- verb To stop an action, plan, or process before it is finished, usually because of a problem.
- verb (medical) To end a pregnancy before the fetus can survive outside the womb.
break — full definition
- verb To separate something into pieces by force, often suddenly.
- verb To stop working properly; to malfunction.
- verb To fail to keep (a promise, rule, or law).
- verb To interrupt or bring an end to something continuous.
- noun A short pause or rest from an activity.