Emily Dickinson Lexicon

lost, verbal adj. [see lose, v.]

1. Gone; missing in action; [fig.] dead.
2. Destroyed; perished; existing no more; [fig.] sunk; inundated; engulfed completely with sea water.
3. Forgotten; past; long ago; once upon a time.
4. Hopeless; discouraged; disoriented spiritually; [fig.] not feeling the redemption of God's love.
5. Indistinct; invisible; indistinguishable; hidden; covered; incorporated; transformed; become as another entity.
6. Missing; removed; relocated; unavailable; inaccessible; out of sight.
7. Beyond sensibility; not recoverable; [fig.] having no sense of direction.
8. Unrecoverable; wiped out; faded away.
9. Disoriented; transient; drifting; vagrant; homeless; in unfamiliar territory.
10. Permanently obliterated; completely annihilated; permanently deleted from existence.
11. Killed; harmed; wrecked; robbed; attacked.
12. Irretrievable; untouchable; unreachable.
13. Prodigal; cursed; not yet redeemed; wandering outside of sacred space.
14. Phrase. “get lost”: wander off; become disoriented; stray from familiar territory.