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To lose the respect of others; to be humiliated or experience public disgrace.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: idiomatic, intransitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Calque from Chinese 丟臉/丢脸 (diūliǎn) or 丟面子/丢面子 (diū miànzi), both literally “lose face”.
Across languages
Translations
47 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Belarusian:
стра́ціць твар
(strácicʹ tvar)
— lose respect of others
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Chinese Mandarin:
丟臉 /丢脸
(diūliǎn)
— lose respect of others
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Chinese Mandarin:
丟人 /丢人
(diūrén)
— lose respect of others
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Chinese Mandarin:
丟面子 /丢面子
(diū miànzi)
— lose respect of others
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Czech:
ztratit tvář
— lose respect of others
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Danish:
tabe ansigt
— lose respect of others
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Dutch:
het gezicht verliezen
— lose respect of others
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Dutch:
gezichtsverlies lijden
— lose respect of others
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Esperanto:
perdi la vizaĝon
— lose respect of others
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Finnish:
menettää kasvonsa
— lose respect of others
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French:
perdre la face
— lose respect of others
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German:
das Gesicht verlieren
— lose respect of others
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Greek:
ρεζιλεύομαι
(rezilévomai)
— lose respect of others
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Indonesian:
kehilangan muka
— lose respect of others
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Italian:
perdere la faccia
— lose respect of others
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Japanese:
面目を失う
(menboku o ushinau)
— lose respect of others
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Khmer:
ខ្មាស
(khmaah)
— lose respect of others
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Korean:
체면을 잃다
(chemyeon-eul ilta)
— lose respect of others
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Korean:
얼굴이 깎이다
(eolgur-i kkakkida)
— lose respect of others
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Korean:
낯이 깎이다
(nach-i kkakkida)
— lose respect of others
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Luxembourgish:
d'Gesiicht verléieren
— lose respect of others
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Malay:
jatuh air muka
— lose respect of others
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Norwegian Bokmål:
tape ansikt
— lose respect of others
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Norwegian Bokmål:
miste ansikt
— lose respect of others
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Norwegian Nynorsk:
miste andlet
— lose respect of others
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Norwegian Nynorsk:
miste ansikt
— lose respect of others
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Polish:
tracić twarz
— lose respect of others
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Polish:
stracić twarz
— lose respect of others
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Portuguese:
perder o respeito
— lose respect of others
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Russian:
потеря́ть лицо́
(poterjátʹ licó)
— lose respect of others
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Spanish:
desprestigiarse
— lose respect of others
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Spanish:
quedar mal parado
— lose respect of others
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Spanish:
desmerecer
— lose respect of others
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Spanish:
quedar mal
— lose respect of others
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Spanish:
salir mal parado
— lose respect of others
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Spanish:
perder el pundonor
— lose respect of others
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Swedish:
förlora ansiktet
— lose respect of others
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Swedish:
tappa ansiktet
— lose respect of others
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Thai:
เสียหน้า
(sǐia-nâa)
— lose respect of others
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Thai:
หน้าแหก
(nâa-hɛ̀ɛk)
— lose respect of others
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Tibetan:
སྤམ་ཤོར
(spam shor)
— lose respect of others
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Turkish:
itibarını kaybetmek
— lose respect of others
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Turkish:
mahçup olmak
— lose respect of others
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Turkish:
saygınlığını yitirmek
— lose respect of others
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Turkish:
yüzü kalmamak
— lose respect of others
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Ukrainian:
втра́тити обли́ччя
(vtrátyty oblýččja)
— lose respect of others
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Vietnamese:
mất mặt
— lose respect of others
