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missing

[ mis-ing ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

absent, not found, or lost:
a missing person.
lacking:
Something is missing in this relationship.

missing

/ ˈ��ɪ��ɪŋ /

adjective

not present; absent or lost
not able to be traced and not known to be dead
nine men were missing after the attack
go missing
to become lost or disappear

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Word History and Origins

Origin of missing¹

First recorded in 1520–30; miss ¹ + -ing ²

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Idioms and Phrases

Idioms

go missing, to disappear; become lost:
My keys have gone missing again.

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Police in South Africa are searching for answers after the bodies of three police officers - who had been missing for six days - were found in a river.

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Police fielded mulitple calls about missing felines and when they went to the suspect’s home on the the 2300 block of West Wilshire Avenue the found evidence of “dozens” of dead cats.

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We ask people who spent the day without electricity about what helped them get on with life and what outage essentials they were missing.

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Assad al-Nassasra was missing for three weeks until the International Committee of the Red Cross received information he was in Israeli detention.

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"When you lose someone that close to you, that never goes away and that every single day that is part of your life. It's the real sense that they are missing out."

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