| Italiano | Inglese |
|---|---|
| perdente noun {m} {f} | loser [losers](person who fails to win) |
| perdente noun {m} | underdog [underdogs](competitor thought unlikely to win) |
| perdere verb | leak [leaked, leaking, leaks](to allow fluid to escape or enter) lose(cause (something) to cease to be in one's possession or capability) miss [missed, missing, misses](to fail to achieve or attain) miss out(to miss something that should not be missed) |
| perdere energia verb | run out of steam(to run out of energy or motivation) |
| perdere il conto verb | lose count(to forget the number of times that something has happened) |
| perdere il filo verb | lose the threadverb |
| perdere il treno verb | miss the boat(fail to take advantage of an opportunity) |
| perdere la calma verb | lose one's temper(to be explosively angry) |
| perdere la faccia verb | lose face(lose respect of others) |
| perdere la pazienza verb | lose one's temper(to be explosively angry) lose patience(to become impatient) |
| perdere la testa verb | lose one's head(behave irrationally or lose self-control) |
| perdere le staffe verb | lose it(to lose one's temper) lose one's temper(to be explosively angry) |
| perdere rispetto verb {f} | give a bad name(to lose respect for something/someone) |
| perdere tempo verb | idle [idled, idling, idles](to spend in idleness, to waste) waste time(allow time to elapse in an unproductive manner) |
| perdere terreno verb | lose groundverb |
| perdersi verb | get lost(lose one's way) stray [strayed, straying, strays](to err) wander [wandered, wandering, wanders](to stray from one's course) |
| perdersi di vista verb | drift apart(to lose contact, to lose one's friendship or closeness) |
| chi lo trova se lo tiene chi lo perde lo rimpiange phrase | finders, keepers(whoever finds something is allowed to keep it) |
| disperdere verb | disperse [dispersed, dispersing, disperses](to scatter) scatter [scattered, scattering, scatters](to cause to separate) |
| disperdersi verb | scatter [scattered, scattering, scatters](to disperse) straggle [straggled, straggling, straggles](to stray from the road) |
| il lupo perde il pelo ma non il vizio phrase | a leopard cannot change its spots(one cannot change one's own nature) old habits die hard(established habits are difficult to change) the fox may grow grey but never good(one cannot change one's own nature) the wolf may lose his teeth but never his nature(one cannot change one's own nature) |
| iperdensità noun {f} | hyperdensity(unusually high density) |
| lascia perdere verb | never mind(it is not important) |
| lasciar perdere verb | get off(to move from being on top of (something)) |
| lasciare perdere verb | let go(to no longer hold on) |