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perder — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • drain noun A pipe or channel that carries away unwanted liquid.
  • forfeit verb To lose or give up something as a penalty for breaking a rule or agreement.
  • fumble verb To handle something clumsily or nervously, often dropping or mishandling it.
  • lose verb To no longer have something you once had, whether by accident, carelessness, or misfortune.
  • miss verb To fail to hit, catch, reach, or make contact with something.
  • moult noun The process of shedding or losing a covering of fur, feathers or skin etc.

Senses

perder is used for these senses in English:

  • drain (intransitive) To lose liquid.
  • drain (transitive) To draw off by degrees; to cause to flow gradually out or off; hence, to exhaust.
  • forfeit To suffer the loss of something by wrongdoing or non-compliance
  • fumble (transitive, intransitive, sports) To drop a ball or a baton etc. by accident.
  • lose (transitive) To shed (weight).
  • lose (intransitive) To be defeated (in a game, competition, contest, etc.)
  • miss (transitive) To be too late to connect with or meet something or someone (a means of transportation, a deadline, etc.).
  • miss (transitive, mostly continuous tenses) To be wanting; to lack something that should be present (see also adjectival missing).

drain — full definition

  1. noun A pipe or channel that carries away unwanted liquid.
  2. verb To cause liquid to flow away, or for liquid to flow away, from something.
  3. verb To gradually use up someone's energy, money, or resources.
  4. noun Something that steadily consumes resources without giving anything back.

forfeit — full definition

  1. verb To lose or give up something as a penalty for breaking a rule or agreement.
  2. noun Something lost or given up as a penalty.

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