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なくす
Meanings
Verb (5-dan, す, transitive)
Usually written in kana
1. to lose (something)
To begin with, why did you lose your memory?
2. to get rid of; to eliminate; to remove; to eradicate; to abolish
I want to rid the world of war.
Alt. forms
なくす
70%
無なくす
16%
失なくす
13%
Pitch accent
な
くす
Top 1700
Conjugations...Used in: 4444
Examples (85 in total)
What did you lose?
I lost my glasses.
Did you lose your ID card?
I almost lost a friend.
She lost her car keys.
I want to rid the world of war.
I found the keys I'd lost.
What? You've lost your mobile again?
I've lost my bag.
I lost my purse.
I want to rid the world of nuclear weapons.
I had lost my pen.
Ugh! I lost my phone again.
I lost one of my earrings.
Mary lost her cell phone.
Tom has lost his eraser.
Tom lost his teddy bear.
Tracy lost her glasses.
I lost my passport. I'll have to get a new one.
Waaahhh! I lost my wallet.
To begin with, why did you lose your memory?
I found the book I'd lost yesterday.
Eliminate waste as far as you possibly can.
Oh no! I lost the car key.
I lost my hat on the bus.
He found my lost bike.
That's the kind of thing where you end up losing people's trust instead.
Even at times like this, I don't lose my curiosity.
I lost my camera the other day.
I lost my key around here.
I've lost my koto picks.
I can't find my ticket. I must have lost it.
I lost a ten-dollar note.
The pen I lost yesterday was new.
Oh, no! I may have lost my passport.
I've lost your email address.
He lost all the money he had.
I found my credit card that I thought I'd lost.
We must make up for lost time.
I lost my receipt. Can I still get a refund?
This is the first time I've seen this guy lose his cool.
There's no gain without pain.
You should not lose anything borrowed.
The soldiers lost the courage to fight.
My father gave me a watch, but I lost it.
This is the same camera that he lost.
I found the lost ball in the park.
I've lost my religious faith.
The lost key was under the couch.
He lost his umbrella again.
How can we abolish war?
That idiot lost the keys again.
She lost her hat, but soon found it.
Have you ever lost your luggage at an airport?
I lost the door key, so I can't enter the house.
The watch I lost the other day was new.
The old man lost the will to live.
You must get rid of that bad habit.
I lost the hat I bought in Boston.
Tom lost his appetite due to the heat wave.
She lost her money, her family, her friends.
It is a journey to remember what one has lost.
He searched the room for the lost key.
She found the ring that she had lost during the journey.
There are many people who have lost all kinds of things.
I lost a camera the day before that.
Would you believe me if I said there is a way to get rid of bullying?
Loss of health is more serious than loss of money.
This is the same pencil that I lost the other day.
My daughter lost almost all the coins she had collected.
Sally lost the contact lenses she had bought the day before.
Tom found my necklace that I thought I'd lost.
Some have lost faith in democracy.
I've lost my fountain pen. I have to buy another one tomorrow.
He lost almost all the stamps he had collected.
She gave me a lovely watch, but I lost it.
This is the same wallet as I lost a week ago.
I've lost or broken all my necklaces.
While swimming in the pool, she lost her locker key.
The little boy has lost the money given to him by his father.
He lost the watch that I had bought him a week before.
He told me that he had lost his textbook the previous morning.
Everybody knows that he lost his leg in the war.
All his hopes evaporated when he lost his only son in the war.
I had lost my purse, so I couldn't buy the cassette.