LOSE ONE'S GRIP

Meaning of LOSE ONE'S GRIP in English

v. phr. To fail in control or command; lose your strength, force, or ability to lead. Mr. Jones began to lose his grip: he no longer wanted the hard jobs, and he left decisions to others. When a locomotive engineer loses his grip, he is no longer trusted with express runs.

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LOSE ONE'S GRIP — lose control
Толковый словарь английского языка - Редакция bed
LOSE ONE'S GRIP — become unable to understand or control one's situation. → grip
Concise Oxford English vocab
LOSE ONE'S GRIP — {v. phr.} To fail in control or command; lose your strength, force, or ability to lead. * /Mr. Jones began …
Slang English vocab
LOSE ONE'S GRIP — {v. phr.} To fail in control or command; lose your strength, force, or ability to lead. * /Mr. Jones began …
Словарь английских идиом
LOSE ONE'S GRIP — lose one's grip etc expr infml When I begin to lose my grip, I will just quit Когда я почувствую, …
Англо-Русский новый словарь современного неформального английского языка
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Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
ONE — I. |wən adjective Etymology: Middle English oon, on, from Old English ān; akin to Old High German ein one, Old …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
LOSE — I. ˈlüz verb ( lost ; lost ˈlȯst also ˈläst ; losing ; loses ) Etymology: alteration (probably influenced in …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
GRIP — I. ˈgrip verb ( gripped or gript ; gripped or gript ; gripping ; grips ) Etymology: Middle English grippen, …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
LOSE — (v. t.) To part with unintentionally or unwillingly, as by accident, misfortune, negligence, penalty, forfeit, etc.; to be deprived of; …
Английский словарь Webster
LOSE — ( v. t. ) To part with unintentionally or unwillingly, as by accident, misfortune, negligence, penalty, forfeit, etc.; to be …
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
ONE — /wun/ , adj. 1. being or amounting to a single unit or individual or entire thing, item, or object rather …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
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Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
GRIP — — gripless , adj. /grip/ , n. , v. , gripped or gript, gripping . n. 1. the act of …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
ONE — I. ˈwən adjective Etymology: Middle English on, an, from Old English ān; akin to Old High German ein one, Latin …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
LOSE — verb ( lost ˈlȯst ; los·ing ˈlü-ziŋ) Etymology: Middle English, from Old English losian to perish, lose, from los destruction; …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
LOSE — vt to cause to part with; to deprive of. 2. lose ·vt to prevent from gaining or obtaining. 3. lose …
Webster English vocab
GRIP — noun a small ditch or furrow. 2. grip ·noun the griffin. 3. grip ·add. ·noun the influenza; grippe. 4. grip …
Webster English vocab
LOSE — [lose] vb lost ; los.ing [ME, fr. OE losian to perish, lose, fr. los destruction; akin to OE leosan to …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
GRIP — [grip] vt gripped ; grip.ping [ME grippen, fr. OE grippan; akin to OE gripan] (bef. 12c) 1: to seize or …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
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Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
LOSE — / luːz; NAmE / verb ( lost , lost / lɒst; NAmE lɑːst; lɔːst/) NOT FIND 1. [ vn ] …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
GRIP — / grɪp; NAmE / noun , verb ■ noun HOLDING TIGHTLY 1. [ C , usually sing. ] grip (on …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
ONE — I. one 1 S1 W1 /wʌn/ BrE AmE number 1 . the number 1: They had one daughter. one hundred …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
LOSE — lose S1 W1 /luːz/ BrE AmE verb ( past tense and past participle lost /lɒst $ lɒːst/) [ Word Family: …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
GRIP — I. grip 1 /ɡrɪp/ BrE AmE noun 1 . FIRM HOLD [countable usually singular] the way you hold something tightly, …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
ONE — adj., n., & pron. --adj. 1 single and integral in number. 2 (with a noun implied) a single person or …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
LOSE — v. (past and past part. lost) 1 tr. be deprived of or cease to have, esp. by negligence or misadventure. …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
ONE — adj., n., & pron. adj. 1 single and integral in number. 2 (with a noun implied) a single person or …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
LOSE — v. (past and past part. lost) 1 tr. be deprived of or cease to have, esp. by negligence or misadventure. …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
ONE — adj., n., & pron. --adj. 1. single and integral in number. 2 (with a noun implied) a single person or …
Oxford English vocab
LOSE — v. (past and past part. lost) 1. tr. be deprived of or cease to have, esp. by negligence or misadventure. …
Oxford English vocab
ONE — ( ones) Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English. 1. One is the number …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
LOSE — ( loses, losing, lost) Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English. 1. If you …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
GRIP — ( grips, gripping, gripped) Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English. 1. If you …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
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Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
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Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
GRIP — I. noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES be gripped by fear (= be very afraid ) ▪ We were gripped by …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
LOSE — (BE DEFEATED) [verb] [past:] lost - to fail to succeed in (a game, competition, etc.)If we lose this game, we're …
Cambridge English vocab
LOSE — Synonyms and related words : be bereaved of, be found wanting, be unsuccessful, bereave, bite the dust, bow, bow to, …
Moby Thesaurus English vocabulary
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Moby Thesaurus English vocabulary
GRIP — n 1. a long time. Origin: hip-hop slang. ("We've been waiting for a grip." "It's been a grip since I …
Slang English vocab
LOSE — verb 1 not keep ADVERB ▪ forever VERB + LOSE ▪ be about to , be going to , be …
Oxford Collocations English Dictionary
GRIP — I. noun 1 hold on sth ADJECTIVE ▪ firm , good , secure , solid ( esp. AmE ), strong …
Oxford Collocations English Dictionary
LOSE — INDEX: lose/can’t find 1. to be unable to find someone or something 2. someone or something that you cannot find …
Longman Activator English vocab
LOSE — v. 25B6; verb I've lost my watch : MISLAY, misplace, be unable to find, lose track of, leave (behind), fail …
Concise Oxford Thesaurus English vocabulary
GRIP — n. 25B6; verb she gripped the edge of the table : GRASP, clutch, hold, clasp, take hold of, clench, grab, …
Concise Oxford Thesaurus English vocabulary
GRIP — n. 1 hold, grasp, clutch, handgrip, clasp, hand-clasp Losing his grip on the rope, he plummeted into the abyss 2 …
Oxford Thesaurus English vocab
ONE — pronoun 1 BAD : Fluency in English is one of the best qualifications you can have. GOOD : Fluency in …
Longman Common Errors English vocabulary
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Большой Англо-Русский словарь
LOSE — гл.; прош. вр. и прич. прош. вр. - lost 1) а) не сохранять, терять (что-л.); утрачивать, лишаться (чего-л.) I lost …
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
GRIP — I 1. сущ. 1) а) схватывание; сжатие, зажатие; хватка to get a grip on ≈ сжимать (что-л.) to lose, relax, …
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
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Англо-Русско-Английский словарь общей лексики - Сборник из лучших словарей
LOSE — lose.ogg lu:z v (lost) I 1. терять to lose one's purse - потерять кошелёк to lose a leg an arm, …
Англо-Русско-Английский словарь общей лексики - Сборник из лучших словарей
GRIP — grip.ogg _I 1. grıp n 1. 1> схватывание; сжатие; зажатие; пожатие to take a grip on a rope - крепко …
Англо-Русско-Английский словарь общей лексики - Сборник из лучших словарей
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Большой Англо-Русский политехнический словарь
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Большой Англо-Русский политехнический словарь - РУССО
GRIP — 1) захватное устройство, захват, схват || захватывать; удерживать 2) зажимать; закреплять 3) лапа 4) рукоятка; ручка 5) зажим || зажимать 6) сила зажима 7) цанга || …
Англо-Русский научно-технический словарь
ONE — one числ. колич.1) один (число 1) one book — одна книга one million — один миллион one half — половина …
Англо-Русский словарь Tiger
LOSE — lose гл.; прош. вр. и прич. прош. вр. - lost1) не сохранять, терять (что-л.); утрачивать, лишаться (чего-л./кого-л.) I lost my …
Англо-Русский словарь Tiger
GRIP — I grip сущ.1) а) схватывание; сжатие, зажатие; хватка to get a grip on — сжимать (что-л.) to lose, relax, release …
Англо-Русский словарь Tiger
GRIP — I 1. [grıp] n 1. 1) схватывание; сжатие; зажатие; пожатие to take a ~ on a rope - крепко ухватиться …
Новый большой Англо-Русский словарь - Апресян, Медникова
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LOSE — v (lost) I 1. терять to lose one's purse - потерять кошелёк to lose a leg an arm, two fingers …
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