lose track

present singular third person loses track · participle present losing track · participle past lost track · past lost track

1. idiomaticTo forget one's train of thought or temporarily misplace an item or its place in a sequence.

   With all that had happened, she had lost track of the time.

   2 more examples

   Sometimes when talking to Paige, I lose track of what her words mean. It's like she's a whale of a dolphin using echolocation. And I'm a boy speaking English.

   2018, Robia Rashid, “Penguin Cam and Chill” (5:50 from the start), in Ryan Case, director, Atypical, season 2, episode 2, spoken by Sam (Keir Gilchrist), via Netflix

   And when Shaylene didn’t make it back right away, Colleen wasn’t alarmed. Her sister had just turned 18 and recently moved back home after weeks of staying with a friend, and it seemed reasonable that she had run into friends and probably lost track of time.

   2026 August 6, Nicholas Muhoro, “An Ohio Teen Vanished During a One-Mile Drive in 1994. Her Locked Car Was Found Hours Later”, in Skip Boring, archived from the original on 06 Aug 2026

   Antonyms: keep track