Illustration: At the remains of a modest Japanese house after a fire has been extinguished, the resident stands quietly holding a house key. The key is intact, but the doorway it once opened is now a charred frame with no usable door.

JLPT N1suru verbLevel estimated by Bebop

喪そう失しつ

soushitsu

to lose

Example sentences

  1. 彼かれは記憶きおく喪失そうしつで悩なやんでいる。

    He is suffering from loss of memory.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 水不足みずぶそくは森林しんりんの喪失そうしつによって起おこる。

    Water shortage is caused by the loss of forests.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. これにより、三成みつなりは戦意せんいを喪失そうしつしたという記述きじゅつがある。

    Mitsunari is said to have lost his fighting spirit because of that.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

Kanji in 喪失

  • 喪miss; mourningOnソウKunも
  • 失lose; errorOnシツKunうしなう・うせる

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