verb
- Fail to perceive or to catch with the senses or the mind.
- usage: "I missed that remark"; "She missed his point"; "We lost part of what he said"
- Feel or suffer from the lack of.
- usage: "He misses his mother"
- synonyms: miss
- Fail to attend an event or activity.
- usage: "I missed the concert"; "He missed school for a week"
- synonyms: miss
- Leave undone or leave out.
- usage: "How could I miss that typo"; "The workers on the conveyor belt miss one out of ten"
- Fail to reach or get to.
- usage: "She missed her train"
- synonyms: miss
- Be without.
- usage: "This soup lacks salt"; "There is something missing in my jewelry box"
- Fail to reach.
- usage: "The arrow missed the target"
- synonyms: miss
- Be absent.
- usage: "The child had been missing for a week"
- synonyms: miss
- Fail to experience.
- usage: "Fortunately, I missed the hurricane"
adjective
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