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1   [mis]
verb (used with object)
1.
to fail to hit or strike: to miss a target.
2.
to fail to encounter, meet, catch, etc.: to miss a train.
3.
to fail to take advantage of: to miss a chance.
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to fail to be present at or for: to miss a day of school.
5.
to notice the absence or loss of: When did you first miss your wallet?
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to regret the absence or loss of: I miss you all dreadfully.
7.
to escape or avoid: He just missed being caught.
8.
to fail to perceive or understand: to miss the point of a remark.
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verb (used without object)
9.
to fail to hit something.
10.
to fail of effect or success; be unsuccessful.

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noun
11.
a failure to hit something.
12.
a failure of any kind.
13.
an omission.
14.
a misfire.
Verb phrases
15.
miss out, Chiefly British. to omit; leave out.
16.
miss out on, to fail to take advantage of, experience, etc.: You missed out on a great opportunity.
Idiom
17.
miss fire. fire (def. 52).
Origin:
before 900; Middle English missen, Old English missan; cognate with Old Frisian missa, Middle Low German, Middle Dutch, Old High German missen, Old Norse missa to fail to hit or reach

Related forms
miss·a·ble, adjective
un·miss·a·ble, adjective
un·missed, adjective

Can be confused: midst, missed, mist.
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miss1 (mɪs)
 
—vb
1.  to fail to reach, hit, meet, find, or attain (some specified or implied aim, goal, target, etc)
2.  (tr) to fail to attend or be present for: to miss a train; to miss an appointment
3.  (tr) to fail to see, hear, understand, or perceive: to miss a point
4.  (tr) to lose, overlook, or fail to take advantage of: to miss an opportunity
5.  (tr) to leave out; omit: to miss an entry in a list
6.  (tr) to discover or regret the loss or absence of: he missed his watch; she missed him
7.  (tr) to escape or avoid (something, esp a danger), usually narrowly: he missed death by inches
8.  miss the boat, miss the bus to lose an opportunity
 
—n
9.  a failure to reach, hit, meet, find, etc
10.  informal give something a miss to avoid (something): give the lecture a miss; give the pudding a miss
 
[Old English missan (meaning: to fail to hit); related to Old High German missan, Old Norse missa]
 
'missable1
 
—adj

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Word Origin & History

miss
"the term of honour to a young girl" [Johnson], shortened form of mistress. Earliest use (1645) is for "prostitute, concubine;" sense of "title for a young unmarried woman, girl" first recorded 1666. In the 1811 reprint of the slang dictionary, Miss Laycock is given as
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an underworld euphemism for "the monosyllable."
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