"lose touch" meaning in All languages combined

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Verb [English]

Audio: En-au-lose touch.ogg [Australia] Forms: loses touch [present, singular, third-person], losing touch [participle, present], lost touch [participle, past], lost touch [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|lose<,,lost> touch}} lose touch (third-person singular simple present loses touch, present participle losing touch, simple past and past participle lost touch)
  1. (idiomatic) To lose contact (with). Tags: idiomatic Translations (lose contact with): 失去聯繫 (english: cease contact with) (Chinese Mandarin), 失去联系 (shīqù liánxì) (Chinese Mandarin), 脫節 (english: be out of touch with something) (Chinese Mandarin), 脱节 (tuōjié) (Chinese Mandarin), menettää yhteys (Finnish), vieraantua (Finnish), elveszti/elveszíti a kapcsolatot (Hungarian)
    Sense id: en-lose_touch-en-verb-JZXL5cfE Disambiguation of 'lose contact with': 84 16
  2. (idiomatic, UK) Alternative form of lose one's touch. Tags: UK, alt-of, alternative, idiomatic Alternative form of: lose one's touch Related terms: in touch, out of touch, touch base
    Sense id: en-lose_touch-en-verb-RX5VNJsX Categories (other): British English, English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 3 97

Inflected forms

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      "word": "vieraantua"
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