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Missing   /mˈɪsɪŋ/   Listen
Missing

adjective
1.
Not able to be found.  "A missing person"
2.
Nonexistent.  Synonyms: absent, lacking, wanting.  "Her appetite was lacking"


Miss

verb
(past & past part. missed; pres. part. missing)
1.
Fail to perceive or to catch with the senses or the mind.  Synonym: lose.  "She missed his point" , "We lost part of what he said"
2.
Feel or suffer from the lack of.
3.
Fail to attend an event or activity.  "He missed school for a week"
4.
Leave undone or leave out.  Synonyms: drop, leave out, neglect, omit, overleap, overlook, pretermit.  "The workers on the conveyor belt miss one out of ten"
5.
Fail to reach or get to.
6.
Be without.  Synonym: lack.  "There is something missing in my jewelry box!"
7.
Fail to reach.
8.
Be absent.
9.
Fail to experience.  Synonym: escape.



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"Missing" Quotes from Famous Books



... Embassy, and had them with her, it seems, in quite a small dressing-bag. I am told she declares she is positive the stones were in the bag, which was locked, when she went on board at Newhaven; yet early this morning they were missing, though the bag was still locked. The theory is that during the night someone must by some means have forced an entrance to the cabin—they declare the cabin door was locked, but of course it can't have been—in which she and her maid slept, have unlocked the bag and extracted the ...
— The Four Faces - A Mystery • William le Queux
... orang-outan had been captured, and the boys educated him, as best they could, and he really developed many reasonable instincts. It was Red Angel who left the wagon and followed them down the river, and who by his peculiar actions attracted attention to their missing team. ...
— The Wonder Island Boys: The Mysteries of the Caverns • Roger Thompson Finlay
... call your attention again to the great educational opportunity which you are missing. If you could come into vital contact each year with more than 4,000 young men and women who are seeking for everything that will help them to be more useful citizens, would you do it? You could exert in that way an exceedingly great influence on the homes and future welfare of ...
— Trees, Fruits and Flowers of Minnesota, 1916 • Various
... like it was a diary. Some of it is missing and some is faded, but it looks to me on the whole as if the man was keeping an account every day of what he was doing and ...
— The Go Ahead Boys and Simon's Mine • Ross Kay
... swept through him as he saw, realized, that one of the Government sacks was missing. The straps were loose about the remaining two; in a minute or more they would have gone. Panic seized him, utter misery, at the thought of what Priest, Crabapple, would say. He would be disgraced, contemptuously dismissed—a failure in the ...
— The Happy End • Joseph Hergesheimer


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