Dictionary

lose track en · VERB

Meanings

1. (idiomatic) To forget one's train of thought or temporarily misplace an item or its place in a sequence.
   • 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:
   • With all that had happened, she had lost track of the time.

Forms

Antonyms

keep track

Translations (9)

fi menettää ... taju (forget one's train of thought) · fr perdre le fil (forget one's train of thought) · pl zapomnieć (forget one's train of thought) · es perder la noción (forget one's train of thought) · es pasarse la hora (forget one's train of thought) · it perdere il filo (forget one's train of thought) · pl zapominać (forget one's train of thought) · cmn 忘記 /忘记 (forget one's train of thought) · de den Faden verlieren (forget one's train of thought)