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loss

n.

The act or fact of losing
ruin, destruction, perdition, mishap, misfortune, forfeiture, giving up, bereavement, ill fortune, misadventure, ill luck, accident, calamity, trouble, disaster, death, sacrifice, catastrophe, cataclysm, trial, failure, misplacing, mislaying.
Damage suffered by loss, sense 1
hurt, injury, wound; see damage 1, 2.
The result of unprofitable activity
privation, want, bereavement, deprivation, need, destitution, being without, lack, waste, deterioration, impairment, degeneration, retrogression, retardation, decline, disadvantage, wreck, wreckage, extermination, eradication, extinction, undoing, dissolution, annihilation, extirpation, perdition, bane, end, undoing, disorganization, breaking up, immolation, suppression, relapse; see also bankruptcy.
Antonyms advantage*, advancement, supply.

at a loss

confused, puzzled, unsure, at sea; see undecided, doubtful 2.

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Another word for loss

noun

The act or an instance of losing something:
losing, misplacement. See get
The condition of being deprived of what one once had or ought to have:
deprival, deprivation, dispossession, divestiture, privation. See give, rich