1. loss
A loss in third-quarter revenues was predicted.
Blindness is responsible for a staggering toll of poor health, suffering, and loss of dignity and diminution in the quality of lives of people worldwide.
at a loss
I had been at a loss as to what career to decide on, but your advice has helped me to see the light regarding my future.
Pet loss refers to the reactions of shock and anger that occur in owners who have been bereaved of their pets.
According to him, the president must not be turned into a caricature, the loss of authority and public order cannot be borne.
Without loss of generality, we can say that the sequence converges to zero.
The loss of childhood spontaneity has caused widespread concern, as well as calls for review of the nation's educational and social structures.
In the English world of the 19th century, it was often said that masturbation would lead to a loss of memory and attention.
It is the drop in the rice pricing (blamed on consumers' loss of interest in rice and the freeing up of the international market) that is the cause.
I was extremely disappointed to see our national soccer team suffer a historic loss.
If the partnership makes a loss, which is opposite of a profit, the losses are ussually divided in the same proportion as the profits.
Due to ill-health of the web-manager, loss of motivation and other circumstances I have decided that it is not possible to continue.
That young man can't get the sort of jobs he wants and doesn't have any friends; he's really at a loss.
Stop maize monoculture, and reestablish multiple cropping, to combat the loss of landscape and soil diversity.
2. undoing
Alcohol and drugs were his undoing.
greed is the undoing of many people
Although some of my sources maintained that laws and politics protect the President to a degree that his critics underestimate, others argued that he has already set in motion a process of his undoing.
It was his undoing.
Yet will the most basic instinct of all still prove to be our undoing? Alcohol and drugs were his undoing
Greed has been the undoing of many a businessman. Undoing the damage done by the storm will take many days.
an intractable drug habit proved to be her sad undoing
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