"lose oneself" meaning in All languages combined

See lose oneself on Wiktionary

Verb [English]

Forms: loses oneself [present, singular, third-person], losing oneself [participle, present], lost oneself [participle, past], lost oneself [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|lose<,,lost> oneself}} lose oneself (third-person singular simple present loses oneself, present participle losing oneself, simple past and past participle lost oneself)
  1. To lose one's way; to become lost.
    Sense id: en-lose_oneself-en-verb-NutFeYjh Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 81 19 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 81 19 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 83 17
  2. (figurative) To become deeply involved (in something) or overwhelmed by a (particular) sensation or emotion. Tags: figuratively
    Sense id: en-lose_oneself-en-verb-1CHd4KYa

Inflected forms

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "loses oneself",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "losing oneself",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "lost oneself",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "lost oneself",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "lose<,,lost> oneself"
      },
      "expansion": "lose oneself (third-person singular simple present loses oneself, present participle losing oneself, simple past and past participle lost oneself)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "81 19",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "81 19",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "83 17",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To lose one's way; to become lost."
      ],
      "id": "en-lose_oneself-en-verb-NutFeYjh",
      "links": [
        [
          "lose one's way",
          "lose one's way"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 197:",
          "text": "I would look for hours at South America, or Africa, or Australia, and lose myself in all the glories of exploration.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2006, Zach Helm, Stranger Than Fiction (screenplay)",
          "text": "Sometimes, when we lose ourselves in fear and despair, in routine and constancy, in hopelessness and tragedy, we can thank God for Bavarian sugar cookies."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To become deeply involved (in something) or overwhelmed by a (particular) sensation or emotion."
      ],
      "id": "en-lose_oneself-en-verb-1CHd4KYa",
      "links": [
        [
          "involved",
          "involved"
        ],
        [
          "overwhelmed",
          "overwhelmed"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(figurative) To become deeply involved (in something) or overwhelmed by a (particular) sensation or emotion."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "figuratively"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "lose oneself"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English verbs",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries"
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "loses oneself",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "losing oneself",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "lost oneself",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "lost oneself",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "lose<,,lost> oneself"
      },
      "expansion": "lose oneself (third-person singular simple present loses oneself, present participle losing oneself, simple past and past participle lost oneself)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "To lose one's way; to become lost."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "lose one's way",
          "lose one's way"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 197:",
          "text": "I would look for hours at South America, or Africa, or Australia, and lose myself in all the glories of exploration.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2006, Zach Helm, Stranger Than Fiction (screenplay)",
          "text": "Sometimes, when we lose ourselves in fear and despair, in routine and constancy, in hopelessness and tragedy, we can thank God for Bavarian sugar cookies."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To become deeply involved (in something) or overwhelmed by a (particular) sensation or emotion."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "involved",
          "involved"
        ],
        [
          "overwhelmed",
          "overwhelmed"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(figurative) To become deeply involved (in something) or overwhelmed by a (particular) sensation or emotion."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "figuratively"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "lose oneself"
}

Download raw JSONL data for lose oneself meaning in All languages combined (1.8kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-21 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-12-04 using wiktextract (d8cb2f3 and 4e554ae). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.