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Missed   /mɪst/   Listen
verb
Miss  v. t.  (past & past part. missed; pres. part. missing)  
1.
To fail of hitting, reaching, getting, finding, seeing, hearing, etc.; as, to miss the mark one shoots at; to miss the train by being late; to miss opportunites of getting knowledge; to miss the point or meaning of something said. "When a man misses his great end, happiness, he will acknowledge he judged not right."
2.
To omit; to fail to have or to do; to get without; to dispense with; now seldom applied to persons. "She would never miss, one day, A walk so fine, a sight so gay." "We cannot miss him; he does make our fire, Fetch in our wood."
3.
To discover the absence or omission of; to feel the want of; to mourn the loss of; to want; as, to miss an absent loved one. "Neither missed we anything... Nothing was missed of all that pertained unto him." "What by me thou hast lost, thou least shalt miss."
To miss stays. (Naut.) See under Stay.


Miss  v. i.  
1.
To fail to hit; to fly wide; to deviate from the true direction. "Men observe when things hit, and not when they miss." "Flying bullets now, To execute his rage, appear too slow; They miss, or sweep but common souls away."
2.
To fail to obtain, learn, or find; with of. "Upon the least reflection, we can not miss of them."
3.
To go wrong; to err. (Obs.) "Amongst the angels, a whole legion Of wicked sprites did fall from happy bliss; What wonder then if one, of women all, did miss?"
4.
To be absent, deficient, or wanting. (Obs.) See Missing, a. "What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend."





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"Missed" Quotes from Famous Books



... Miss Gladden, as he seated himself, "we will all have to celebrate your return, for we have missed you very much. Have you ...
— The Award of Justice - Told in the Rockies • A. Maynard Barbour
... sally, mot, and epigram. Every second of deliberation upon a reply costs you a bay leaf. Fine as a hair, a line began to curve from her nostrils to her mouth. To hold her own not a chance must be missed. A sentence addressed to her must be as a piccolo, each word of it a stop, which she must be prepared to seize upon and play. And she must always be quicker than a Micmac Indian to paddle the light canoe of conversation away ...
— The Trimmed Lamp • O. Henry
... Nevertheless he rarely missed a chance of conversation with William Ashe, not because the younger man, in spite of his past indolence, was generally held to be both able and accomplished, but because the elder found in him an invincible taste for men and women, their fortunes, ...
— The Marriage of William Ashe • Mrs. Humphry Ward
... to him—the esteem and confidence of his fellow-men, worldly success, aye, and the blessing of God upon the work to which he dedicated the best portion of his remaining years—the raising up of the fallen and unfortunate; all these things came to him in time, but one thing he forever missed—the old look of perfect, unquestioning trust in one woman's eyes, the eyes of the woman for whose sake ...
— Stories by American Authors, Volume 10 • Various
... the air towards the crested neck. One missed its mark, but the other fell, true as a gun-shot over the small, thoroughbred head. It was Jacky's rope which had found its mark. A hitch round the horn of her saddle, and her horse threw himself back with her ...
— The Story of the Foss River Ranch • Ridgwell Cullum


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