Synonyms for losing

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1. Said of one who loses

   failing, falling, undone, defeated, worsted, ruined, doomed, being wrecked, being destroyed, being shorn of, being denuded, being deprived of, being bereft of, having the worst of it, coming to grief, quit of*, on the way out*; see also sad 2.

2. Said of an activity in which one must lose

   futile, desperate, lost; see hopeless 2.