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Go away, as in Get lost, we don't want you around. This rather rude slangy imperative dates from the 1940s.

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The rainy weather could not ________ my elated spirits on my graduation day.

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In this cockamamie get-rich scheme, would they all issue an apology if he cut a check?
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So in that sense we have gotten close to the families that have lost loved ones, be it from one side or the other.
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After four or five months of casual interaction, they realized they both had lost a young parent to cancer.
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He was not originally so uninhibited, however, as can now be seen in his “lost” novel, Skylight.
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“The origin of Brokpas is lost in antiquity,” a research article from the University of Delhi notes.
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The patache was never seen again, and there is not much doubt that it was lost with all hands on board.
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This vessel, loaded with supplies, went ashore and was lost; and one hundred and twenty Japanese and three Dutchmen were drowned.
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They held the compound against repeated assaults, and lost several men in hand-to-hand fighting.
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How much of the imagination, how much of the intellect, evaporates and is lost while we seek to embody it in words!
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Kum Kale has been a brilliant bit of work, though I fear we have lost nearly a quarter of our effectives.
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