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Missed   /mɪst/   Listen
Missed

adjective
1.
Not caught with the senses or the mind.  Synonym: lost.


Miss

verb
(past & past part. missed; pres. part. missing)
1.
Fail to perceive or to catch with the senses or the mind.  Synonym: lose.  "She missed his point" , "We lost part of what he said"
2.
Feel or suffer from the lack of.
3.
Fail to attend an event or activity.  "He missed school for a week"
4.
Leave undone or leave out.  Synonyms: drop, leave out, neglect, omit, overleap, overlook, pretermit.  "The workers on the conveyor belt miss one out of ten"
5.
Fail to reach or get to.
6.
Be without.  Synonym: lack.  "There is something missing in my jewelry box!"
7.
Fail to reach.
8.
Be absent.
9.
Fail to experience.  Synonym: escape.



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"Missed" Quotes from Famous Books



... raged inwardly at first to find herself between the two old gentlemen of the party. It very soon gave her great comfort, however, to see that Marilla Rowens had just missed it in her calculations, and she chuckled immensely to find Dudley Venner devoting himself chiefly to Helen Darley. If the Rowens woman should hook Dudley, she felt as if she should gnaw all her nails off for spite. To think of seeing her barouching about Rockland ...
— Atlantic Monthly Volume 6, No. 37, November, 1860 • Various
... the Clermontais; shortest of the year; remarkablest of the century: Night deserving to be named of Spurs! Cornet Remy, and those Few he dashed off with, has missed his road; is galloping for hours towards Verdun; then, for hours, across hedged country, through roused hamlets, towards Varennes. Unlucky Cornet Remy; unluckier Colonel Damas, with whom there ride desperate only some loyal Two! More ...
— The French Revolution • Thomas Carlyle
... to me, as we ascended the stairs, the cause of his message. Immediately after the departure of the Marechal de Villeroy, M. le Frejus, the King's instructor, had been missed. He had disappeared. He had not slept at Versailles. No one knew what had become of him! The grief of the King had so much increased upon receiving this fresh blow—both his familiar friends taken from him at once—that no one knew what to do with him. He was in the ...
— Marguerite de Navarre - Memoirs of Marguerite de Valois Queen of Navarre • Marguerite de Navarre
... pointed to his joke with immense significance, as is often the way with his tribe. It missed its mark, and completely failed, as is often the way ...
— A Tale of Two Cities - A Story of the French Revolution • Charles Dickens
... when the king smiled and their work was done, they stole away so softly and happily that no one missed them. ...
— Nature Myths and Stories for Little Children • Flora J. Cooke


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