n. 25B6; noun
the loss of the documents : MISLAYING, misplacement, forgetting.
loss of earnings : DEPRIVATION, disappearance, privation, forfeiture, diminution, erosion, reduction, depletion.
the loss of her husband : DEATH, dying, demise, passing (away/on), end, quietus; bereavement; formal decease; archaic expiry.
British losses in the war : CASUALTY, fatality, victim; dead; missing; death toll, number killed/dead/wounded.
a loss of £15,000 : DEFICIT, debit, debt, indebtedness, deficiency.
recovery, profit.
25A0; at a loss BAFFLED, nonplussed, mystified, puzzled, perplexed, bewildered, bemused, at sixes and sevens, confused, dumbfounded, stumped, stuck, blank; informal clueless, flummoxed, bamboozled, fazed, floored, beaten; N. Amer. informal discombobulated.