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English
Verb
lose weight (third-person singular simple present loses weight, present participle losing weight, simple past and past participle lost weight)
- (intransitive) To become less heavy or obese.
- Antonyms: gain weight, put on weight
You look slimmer these days? Have you lost weight?
I'll need to lose weight if I want to fit into my old jeans.
Related terms
Translations
to become less heavy or obese
- Arabic: فَقَدَ وَزْن (faqada wazn)
- Aromanian: mi-dizgrash, slãghescu
- Azerbaijani: arıqlamaq (az)
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 減肥／减肥 (gaam2 fei4)
- Mandarin: 減肥／减肥 (zh) (jiǎnféi)
- Czech: zhubnout (cs)
- Esperanto: malpeziĝi
- Finnish: laihtua (fi) (to lose weight for any reason); laihduttaa (fi) (to do actively something unnamed in order to lose weight)
- French: perdre du poids, maigrir (fr)
- Galician: degaxar (gl), perder peso, adelgazar
- Georgian: გახდომა (gaxdoma), დაკლება (daḳleba), წონაში დაკლება (c̣onaši daḳleba)
- German: abnehmen (de), abmagern (de)
- Greek: αδυνατίζω (el) (adynatízo)
- Hebrew: ירד במשקל (yarád ba-mishkál)
- Hungarian: fogy (hu)
- Ido: dineskar (io)
- Ingrian: kehnontua
- Japanese: 体重を減らす (たいじゅうをへらす, taijū-o herasu), 痩せる (ja) (やせる, yaseru)
- Khmer: សម្រកទំងន់ (sâmrôkâtumngôn)
- Latin: mācrēscō
- Nahuatl: poloa etiliztli
- Navajo: ánísdaasígíí yaa íílééh
- Norwegian: gå ned i vekt
- Polish: zrzucić (pl) impf, chudnąć (pl) impf, zrzucić kilogramy pf, zeszczupleć pf, tracić na wadze impf
- Portuguese: perder peso, emagrecer (pt), adelgaçar (pt), emagrar
- Romanian: slăbi (ro)
- Russian: худе́ть (ru) impf (xudétʹ), похуде́ть (ru) pf (poxudétʹ), сбра́сывать вес impf (sbrásyvatʹ ves), сбро́сить вес pf (sbrósitʹ ves)
- Spanish: perder peso, bajar de peso, adelgazar (es)
- Swedish: gå ner i vikt
- Tagalog: mangayayat
- Turkish: kilo vermek (tr)
- Ukrainian: ху́днути (xúdnuty)
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