lose weight

English

Verb

lose weight (third-person singular simple present loses weight, present participle losing weight, simple past and past participle lost weight)

1. (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

• weight loss

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 (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)

• 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)