All loss synonyms

noun loss

• debt — A debt is a sum of money that you owe someone.
• disaster — a calamitous event, especially one occurring suddenly and causing great loss of life, damage, or hardship, as a flood, airplane crash, or business failure.
• accident — An accident happens when a vehicle hits a person, an object, or another vehicle, causing injury or damage.
• fall — to come or drop down suddenly to a lower position, especially to leave a standing or erect position suddenly, whether voluntarily or not: to fall on one's knees.
• damage — To damage an object means to break it, spoil it physically, or stop it from working properly.
• failure — an act or instance of failing or proving unsuccessful; lack of success: His effort ended in failure. The campaign was a failure.
• cost — The cost of something is the amount of money that is needed in order to buy, do, or make it.
• defeat — If you defeat someone, you win a victory over them in a battle, game, or contest.
• trouble — to disturb the mental calm and contentment of; worry; distress; agitate.
• injury — harm or damage that is done or sustained: to escape without injury.
• catastrophe — A catastrophe is an unexpected event that causes great suffering or damage.
• casualty — A casualty is a person who is injured or killed in a war or in an accident.
• destruction — Destruction is the act of destroying something, or the state of being destroyed.
• undoing — the reversing of what has been done; annulling.
• harm — a U.S. air-to-surface missile designed to detect and destroy radar sites by homing on their emissions.
• misadventure — an instance of bad fortune; mishap.
• dispossession — to put (a person) out of possession, especially of real property; oust.
• mishap — an unfortunate accident.
• deficiency — Deficiency in something, especially something that your body needs, is not having enough of it.
• want — to feel a need or a desire for; wish for: to want one's dinner; always wanting something new.
• need — a requirement, necessary duty, or obligation: There is no need for you to go there.
• death — Death is the permanent end of the life of a person or animal.
• shrinkage — the act or fact of shrinking.
• ruin — ruins, the remains of a building, city, etc., that has been destroyed or that is in disrepair or a state of decay: We visited the ruins of ancient Greece.
• privation — lack of the usual comforts or necessaries of life: His life of privation began to affect his health.
• depletion — a depleting or being depleted
• perdition — a state of final spiritual ruin; loss of the soul; damnation.
• waste — to consume, spend, or employ uselessly or without adequate return; use to no avail or profit; squander: to waste money; to waste words.
• impairment — the state of being diminished, weakened, or damaged, especially mentally or physically: cognitive impairment in older adults.
• disappearance — the act or an instance of disappearing; a ceasing to be seen or to exist.
• destitution — Destitution is the state of having no money or possessions.
• sacrifice — the offering of animal, plant, or human life or of some material possession to a deity, as in propitiation or homage.
• debit — When your bank debits your account, money is taken from it and paid to someone else.
• bereavement — Bereavement is the sorrow you feel or the state you are in when a relative or close friend dies.
• hurt — to cause bodily injury to; injure: He was badly hurt in the accident.
• forfeiture — an act of forfeiting.
• cataclysm — A cataclysm is an event that causes great change or harm.
• fatality — a disaster resulting in death.
• disadvantage — absence or deprivation of advantage or equality.
• deprivation — If you suffer deprivation, you do not have or are prevented from having something that you want or need.
• trial — German Der Prozess. a novel (1925) by Franz Kafka.
• calamity — A calamity is an event that causes a great deal of damage, destruction, or personal distress.
• retardation — the act of retarding or state of being retarded.
• detriment — If something happens to the detriment of something or to a person's detriment, it causes harm or damage to them.
• wreckage — act of wrecking; state of being wrecked.
• beating — If someone is given a beating, they are hit hard many times, especially with something such as a stick.
• thrashing — an act or instance of thrashing; beating; blow.
• pasting — a mixture of flour and water, often with starch or the like, used for causing paper or other material to adhere to something.
• slaughter — Frank, 1908–2001, U.S. novelist and physician.
• hammering — The sound or action of hammering something.