laurels vs loss

laurels

noun
  • Honors. From the Ancient Greek practice of crowning victors with a branch from the laurel bush, sacred to Apollo. 

loss

noun
  • The result of no longer possessing an object, a function, or a characteristic due to external causes or misplacement. 

  • The death of a person or animal. 

  • Defeat; an instance of being defeated. 

  • Something that has been destroyed or ruined. 

  • The condition of grief caused by losing someone or something, especially someone who has died. 

  • The sum an entity loses on balance. 

  • The destruction or ruin of an object. 

  • Electricity of kinetic power expended without doing useful work. 

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