loss

[ laws, los ]

noun

• detriment, disadvantage, or deprivation from failure to keep, have, or get: to bear the loss of a robbery.
• something that is lost: The painting was the greatest loss from the robbery.
• an amount or number lost: The loss of life increased each day.
• the state of being deprived of or of being without something that one has had: the loss of old friends.
• death, or the fact of being dead: to mourn the loss of a grandparent.
• the accidental or inadvertent losing of something dropped, misplaced, stolen, etc.: to discover the loss of a document.