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
- noun A pipe or channel that carries away unwanted liquid.
- verb To cause liquid to flow away, or for liquid to flow away, from something.
- verb To gradually use up someone's energy, money, or resources.
- noun Something that steadily consumes resources without giving anything back.
forfeit — full definition
- verb To lose or give up something as a penalty for breaking a rule or agreement.
- noun Something lost or given up as a penalty.