It is a sudden loss of consciousness, usually for a short time.

The sudden loss made it clear in all their minds just how much they needed him.

She was not even near to getting over the shock of the sudden loss.

There had been the sudden losses of too many important players before the season.

Inside the lab on Level 4, everybody looked up at the sudden loss of power.

This is the trees response to the sudden loss of leaves.

A clearing in his head, a sudden loss of sound.

All through the sudden loss of nerve by a man whose part was small.

But 2003 began instead on a note of sudden and profound loss.

All about them were the accessories that come with sudden, public loss.