lose confidence

Idiom Confidence

Meaning

to stop believing in your own ability or someone else’s

Example Sentences

Don’t lose confidence after one failure.

Related Vocabularies

the feeling or belief that one can rely on someone or something; firm trust; self-assurance
to be unable to find something; to fail to win; to misplace

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A situation where a disaster or accident was narrowly avoided.

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to quietly discover what people think

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secretly; in a sneaky way

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to do a lot of difficult or complicated things to achieve something

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to process data or analyze statistics

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