"lose sleep" meaning in English

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Verb

Forms: loses sleep [present, singular, third-person], losing sleep [participle, present], lost sleep [participle, past], lost sleep [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|lose<,,lost> sleep}} lose sleep (third-person singular simple present loses sleep, present participle losing sleep, simple past and past participle lost sleep)
  1. (often with over) To worry. Tags: often

Inflected forms

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