Lost inside the map !
lost /lɔst/ adjective
A- not knowing where you are or how to find your way:
• We got lost driving around the city.
USAGE
1- Use lost in order to describe someone or something that you cannot find, or someone who does not know where s/he is:
• We took a wrong turn and got lost.
• Lost children should talk to a store employee.
• a lost wallet
Use missing in order to describe someone or something you have been looking for, especially when the situation is serious:
• the missing jewels
• the search for the two missing boys
B- Unable to be found:
• a lost dog
C- Wasted:
• lost opportunities
D- Be/Feel lost to not feel confident or able to take care of yourself:
• I'd be lost without all your help.
E- Be lost on somebody if humor or intelligent
thinking is lost on someone, s/he cannot understand it or does not want to accept it:
• Your sarcasm was lost on him.
F- Get lost! spoken used in order to tell someone rudely to go away
G- Lost cause something that has no chance of succeeding:
• Trying to interest my son in classical music is a lost cause.
>lostlost verb
the past tense and past participle of lose
>lost-and-foundˌlost-and-ˈfound noun [singular] an office used for keeping things that people have lost until their owners can get them
Ref: Longman Dictionary of American English
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