"lose sight of" meaning in English

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Verb

Forms: loses sight of [present, singular, third-person], losing sight of [participle, present], lost sight of [participle, past], lost sight of [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|lose<,,lost> sight of}} lose sight of (third-person singular simple present loses sight of, present participle losing sight of, simple past and past participle lost sight of)
  1. To be no longer able to see. Translations (be no longer able to see): 看不見 (Chinese Mandarin), 看不见 (kànbujiàn) (Chinese Mandarin), kadottaa näkyvistään (Finnish), accecarsi (Italian), потеря́ть из ви́ду (poterjátʹ iz vídu) [perfective] (Russian)
    Sense id: en-lose_sight_of-en-verb-HvaBbSYv Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 93 7 Disambiguation of 'be no longer able to see': 99 1
  2. To fail to remember; to overlook or neglect. Translations (fail to remember): 忽略 (hūlüè) (Chinese Mandarin), 忘記 (Chinese Mandarin), 忘记 (wàngjì) (Chinese Mandarin), unohtaa (Finnish), lyödä laimin (Finnish), hylätä (Finnish), потеря́ть из ви́ду (poterjátʹ iz vídu) [perfective] (Russian)
    Sense id: en-lose_sight_of-en-verb-Aquq6ah3 Disambiguation of 'fail to remember': 1 99

Inflected forms

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