Meanings
verblose one's heart (third-person singular simple present loses one's heart, present participle losing one's heart, simple past and past participle lost one's heart)
present singular third person loses one's heart · participle present losing one's heart · participle past lost one's heart · past lost one's heart
- datedidiomaticTo fall in love with someone; to become smitten with someone.
- idiomaticTo lose one's zeal or enthusiasm for something.
Meeting time has come and gone They'll lose their heart and head for home Try to tell us something we don't know
1987 August 31, “Disturbance at the Heron House”, in Document, performed by R.E.M.
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