Thesaurus results for LOSE IT

lose it

phrase

Definition of lose it

as in crack

to yield to mental or emotional stress She lost it when she was told there would be yet another delay.

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Recent Examples of lose it The film followed the trials of a struggling keyboardist who gets hold of a magical synthesizer, only to lose it and embark on a picaresque journey to get it back. — Josephine Reisman, Vulture, 24 Sep. 2026 Sling it around your neck, across your body, or double it up as a wristlet to avoid dropping your phone or potentially losing it to theft. — Sophie Dodd, Travel + Leisure, 13 Sep. 2026 Garfield stars as Ploughman, a farmer who’s lost his family to the Black Death and then loses it on some tax collectors. — Brian Truitt, USA Today, 10 Sep. 2026 But during construction, workers dropped the project’s 1,000-meter-long cold water pipe, losing it to the depths of the ocean. — IEEE Spectrum, 10 Sep. 2026 See All Example Sentences for lose it

Recent Examples of Synonyms for lose it

fall apart

Phrase

Not in any meaningful amount, and the sourdough probiotic idea falls apart once the loaf hits the oven.

— Ryan Brennan, Kansas City Star, 20 Oct. 2026
Firmware fun Flashing the firmware to the Arduino should be the easy part, but this is when things started falling apart for me.

— Tim Stevens, ArsTechnica, 19 Oct. 2026