losing

Etymology

verb

  1. present participle and gerund of lose

adj

  1. That loses or has lost.
    Being on the losing team is disappointing.

noun

  1. The process by which something is lost; a loss.
    We conceive that an alternation of such losings and regainings will continue to be presented in England, until the whole business is set on a new and more stable basis by a revolution which shall not be moral only. 1842, The United States Magazine and Democratic Review, page 339

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