miss¹ /mis/

1. To fail to hit, reach, find, meet, touch, catch, get, have, take advantage of, attend, observe or see
2. To avoid (a specified danger)
3. To fail (to do; archaic)
4. To leave out, omit
5. To discover the absence of
6. To feel the loss or absence of
7. To think of (an absent person or thing) longingly, or (a former time) nostalgically
8. To do without (Shakespeare)

1. To fail to hit or obtain
2. To fail
3. To go wrong (obsolete)
4. To miss fire

1. The fact or condition or an act or occasion of missing
2. Failure to hit the mark
3. Loss
4. (the source of or reason for) a feeling of loss or absence
5. Wrongdoing (Shakespeare)

missˈable adjective

missˈing adjective

1. Not to be found
2. Not in the expected place
3. Lacking
4. Of unascertained fate (military)

missˈingly adverb (Shakespeare)

With a sense of loss

missing link noun

1. A hypothetical extinct creature thought to be intermediate between man and the anthropoid apes
2. Any one thing required to complete a series

give (something) a miss

1. To allow an opponent to score by intentionally missing (billiards)
2. To leave out, omit or avoid something

go missing

1. To disappear, esp unexpectedly and inexplicably
2. To be mislaid

miss fire

To fail to go off or explode (cf misfire)

miss oneself (Scot)

To miss out on an enjoyable experience

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