Vocabulary

Form

to lose (through death; e.g. a wife, child)

verb vt
N3 freq #900

Example sentences

He felt sad because he lost his father.

He had his only son killed in an automobile accident.

He lost his parents at the age of seven.

I lost my son about a decade ago.

When his wife died he was full of heartrending grief.

I lost my father to a subarachnoid haemorrhage when I was fourteen.

He had his parents die in the plane accident.

The widowed mother had to go through a lot of hardships.