"lose touch" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: En-au-lose touch.ogg 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, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with Hungarian translations, Terms with Mandarin translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 3 97 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 12 88 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 5 95 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 4 96 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 9 91 Disambiguation of Terms with Hungarian translations: 11 89 Disambiguation of Terms with Mandarin translations: 8 92

Inflected forms

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      "english": "cease contact with",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "lose contact with",
      "word": "失去聯繫"
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      "roman": "shīqù liánxì",
      "sense": "lose contact with",
      "word": "失去联系"
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      "word": "脫節"
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      "sense": "lose contact with",
      "word": "脱节"
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      "sense": "lose contact with",
      "word": "menettää yhteys"
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      "code": "fi",
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      "sense": "lose contact with",
      "word": "vieraantua"
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      "sense": "lose contact with",
      "word": "elveszti/elveszíti a kapcsolatot"
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