lose caste verb2 •To lose one's status as a member of one's caste of birth.An uncle of mine in Delhi thinks that I have become polluted, that I have lost caste by working with leather. — 1993 •To fall in social standing; to suffer a loss of status or reputation.He was degraded in their eyes; he had lost caste and station before the very paupers; he had fallen from all the height and pomp of beadleship to the lowest depth of the most snubbed hen-peckery. — 1838 formslost caste · losing caste · loses caste