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miss in WordNet English dictionary

verb
  1. leave undone or leave out
    "How could I miss that typo?"; "The workers on the conveyor belt miss one out of ten"
    neglect  pretermit  omit  drop  miss  leave out  overlook  overleap 
  2. fail to experience
    "Fortunately, I missed the hurricane"
    miss  escape 
  3. be without
    "This soup lacks salt"; "There is something missing in my jewelry box!"
    miss  lack 
  4. 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"
    miss  lose 
  5. fail to reach
    "The arrow missed the target"
    miss 
  6. feel or suffer from the lack of
    "He misses his mother"
    miss 
  7. fail to reach or get to
    "She missed her train"
    miss 
  8. fail to attend an event or activity
    "I missed the concert"; "He missed school for a week"
    miss 
  9. be absent
    "The child had been missing for a week"
    miss 
noun
  1. a young woman
    "a young lady of 18"
    girl  miss  missy  young lady  young woman  fille 
  2. a failure to hit (or meet or find etc)
    miss  misfire 
WordNet Lexical Database v3.0, © 2006 Princeton University