miss
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(verb) fail to experience; "Fortunately, I missed the hurricane" |
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Synonyms: escape |
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Related Words: avoid |
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(verb) fail to hit the intended target |
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Related Words: fail, go wrong, miscarry, overshoot, undershoot |
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Antonyms: hit |
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(verb) fail to reach; "The arrow missed the target" |
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Antonyms: hit |
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(verb) feel or suffer from the lack of: "He misses his mother" |
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Related Words: ache, desire, languish, long, pine, regret, want, yearn, yen |
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(verb) fail to reach or get to: "She missed her train" |
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Related Words: fail, go wrong, miscarry |
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(verb) fail to perceive or to catch with the senses or the mind; "I missed that remark"; "She missed his point"; "We lost part of what he said" |
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Synonyms: lose |
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Related Words: overlook |
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(verb) fail to attend an event or activity: "I missed the concert"; "He missed school for a week" |
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Related Words: cut, fail, neglect, skip |
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Antonyms: attend |
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(verb) be without; "This soup lacks salt"; "There is something missing in my jewellery box!" |
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Synonyms: lack |
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Related Words: exclude, lack, want |
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Antonyms: have |
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(verb) be absent; "The child had been missing for a week" |
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(noun) a failure to hit (or meet or find etc) |
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Synonyms: missfire |
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Related Words: failure |
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(noun) a young woman; "a young lady of 18" |
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Synonyms: fille, girl, missy, young lady, young woman |
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Related Words: Cinderella, Gibson girl, May queen, adult female, baby, bachelor girl, belle, bimbo, bird, chick, colleen, dame, doll, flapper, gal, hoyden, jeune fille, lass, lassie, maid, maiden, party girl, peri, queen of the May, romp, rosebud, shop girl, sister, skirt, soubrette, sweater girl, tomboy, wench, woman, working girl, young girl |
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(verb) leave undone or leave out; "How could I miss that typo?"; "The workers on the conveyor belt miss one out of ten" |
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Synonyms: drop, leave out, neglect, omit, overleap, overlook |
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Related Words: forget, jump, pass over, skip, skip over |
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