Word Finder - missing

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To fail to hit.

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I missed the target.

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To fail to achieve or attain.

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to miss an opportunity

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To avoid; to escape.

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The car just missed hitting a passer-by.

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To become aware of the loss or absence of; to feel the want or need of, sometimes with regret.

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I miss you! Come home soon!

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To fail to understand; to have a shortcoming of perception; overlook.

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miss the joke

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To fail to attend.

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Joe missed the meeting this morning.

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To be late for something (a means of transportation, a deadline, etc.).

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I missed the plane!

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To be wanting; to lack something that should be present.

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The car is missing essential features.

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(said of a card) To fail to help the hand of a player.

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Player A: J7. Player B: Q6. Table: 283. The flop missed both players!

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To fail to score (a goal).

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To go wrong; to err.

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To be absent, deficient, or wanting.

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A value that is missing.

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Not able to be located; gone, misplaced.

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my missing socks

synonyms

• absent
• lost

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Not present when it (they) should be.

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Joe went missing last year.

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Of an internal combustion engine: running roughly due to an occasional lack of a spark or other irregular fault.

She was missing something.

One word was missing in all that...

Dean was sorry Cynthia was missing the presentation.

You're deliberately missing the point.

Howie located a Salt Lake City missing girl of twelve, hidden in the loving care of a distant aunt.

As she passed a neighbor boy, he waved at her, his two missing front teeth displayed in a sweet smile.

Was it about a missing child?

His bright smile with the two missing front teeth faded as he realized they were leaving without her.

Her son was missing.

A missing girl fell through the ice and drowned while Howie helplessly watched.

He always asked Betsy what cases he was missing by his absence.

She was fully a part of him when they touched, as if he'd been missing more than a piece of his soul all these years and just now realized it.

I'm just beginning to see what I've been missing.

Most of our cases proved to be runaways or missing persons and our limitations due to non-specific known time or age of the event continued to plague us.

I can bring you another one of the notes verifying that's where I am when I'm missing work.

I cannot propose to her at present, but the thought that perhaps she might someday be my wife and that I may be missing that possibility... that possibility... is terrible.

While he never believed he'd overlooked her among the throngs of women he'd met, he had heard even his sisters speak of the missing lifemate and how he had refused every woman on the planet and perhaps somehow overlooked her.

We all remember ours but yours is missing.

Our success with missing persons continued to grow.

A little girl is missing.

He wasn't pleased with you for missing his farewell this morn.

He learned of another who was reported missing, presumed dead, at sea.

Betsy lined up two likely abductions and she was anxious to get started, Quinn had already performed his part, setting his apparatus appropriately for a rural Iowa location where a twelve year old boy had gone missing.

It was always young girls so I started looking at old unsolved cases; missing children as well as murders.

She's missing her friend Caleb since he and his parents left.

People don't just turn up missing without causing a search.

She was off to the library to meet with a book club; she commented that her heart wasn't in it with Martha still missing.

But now that he's missing, I'm scared to death, wondering what he'll do next.

Aunt Helen came back to Ouray that weekend and of course Uncle Blackie was missing.

He noticed something … missing the night before, soon after he left her.

He counted a total of seven missing, including the three known traitors.

Another four are missing, assumed in the underworld.

I'm guessing he's no longer missing.

He hasn't been missing long enough to have starved.

Something had been missing in his life when he lived in Texas, and this was it.

We're missing souls and fighting off demons to get to the dead.

The demons are gathering the ones we're missing.

The second soul bartered for in private was flat out missing.

He'd find the missing soul.

I feel like I'm missing something.

She poured herself some more, struggling to figure out what she was missing.

He knew he wasn't collecting fast enough, but the amount left him horrified to imagine how many he was missing.

None of his dealers reported one missing, which left two options, neither of them good.

Grimly, Gabriel realized he was still missing too much, even on the mortal world.

He couldn't have the tumor – or half her brain missing – when he revived her.

She was missing something again.

With any luck, the worst part of her day would be missing her stop.

The minute he found her missing from the cave, he'd felt an uneasy, unfamiliar sense of concern.

Once more, he caught himself thinking of Andre and missing his brother.s—and best friend.s—guidance.

Kiera felt again that she was missing something but didn't know what.