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NOUN | 1 | miss, girl, missy, young lady, young woman, fille | A young woman |
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2 | miss, misfire | A failure to hit (or meet or find etc) | |
VERB | 1 | miss, lose | Fail to perceive or to catch with the senses or the mind |
2 | miss | Feel or suffer from the lack of | |
3 | miss | Fail to attend an event or activity | |
4 | miss, neglect, pretermit, omit, drop, leave out, overlook, overleap | Leave undone or leave out | |
5 | miss | Fail to reach or get to | |
6 | miss, lack | Be without | |
7 | miss | Fail to reach | |
8 | miss | Be absent | |
9 | miss, escape | Fail to experience |
Sounds | mih's |
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Rhymes | abyss, allis, amaryllis, and 177 more rhymes in ihs at the HyperDic website... |
Meaning | A young woman. |
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Synonyms | girl, missy, young lady, young woman, fille |
Narrower | baby, sister; bachelor girl; belle; bimbo; colleen; dame, doll, wench, skirt, chick, bird; flapper; gal; Gibson girl; lass, lassie, young girl, jeune fille; maid, maiden; May queen, queen of the May; mill-girl; party girl; peri; ring girl; rosebud; sex kitten, sexpot, sex bomb; shop girl; soubrette; sweater girl; tomboy, romp, hoyden; valley girl; working girl |
Broader | woman, adult female |
Meaning | A failure to hit (or meet or find etc). |
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Synonyms | misfire |
Broader | failure |
Verbs | miss; miss |
Meaning | Fail to perceive or to catch with the senses or the mind. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody |
Examples | "I missed that remark"; "She missed his point" |
Synonyms | lose |
Narrower | overlook |
Meaning | Feel or suffer from the lack of. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody |
Model | They miss moving |
Examples | "He misses his mother" |
Entails | repent, regret, rue |
Narrower | regret |
Broader | desire, want |
Meaning | Fail to attend an event or activity. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
Examples | "I missed the concert"; "He missed school for a week" |
Narrower | cut, skip |
Broader | fail, neglect |
Contrary | attend, go to |
Meaning | Leave undone or leave out. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody; Somebody ----s to INFINITIVE |
Examples | "How could I miss that typo?"; "The workers on the conveyor belt miss one out of ten" |
Synonyms | neglect, pretermit, omit, drop, leave out, overlook, overleap |
Narrower | forget; jump, pass over, skip, skip over |
Contrary | attend to, take to heart |
Meaning | Fail to reach or get to. |
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Pattern | Something ----s something |
Examples | "She missed her train" |
Entails | travel, go, move, locomote |
Broader | fail, go wrong, miscarry |
Nouns | miss |
Meaning | Be without. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something |
Examples | "There is something missing in my jewellery box!" |
Synonyms | lack |
Narrower | want; exclude |
Contrary | have, feature |
Meaning | Fail to reach. |
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Pattern | Something ----s something |
Examples | "The arrow missed the target" |
Narrower | overshoot; undershoot |
Contrary | hit, strike, impinge on, run into, collide with |
Nouns | miss |
Meaning | Be absent. |
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Pattern | Something ----s; Somebody ----s |
Examples | "The child had been missing for a week" |
Meaning | Fail to experience. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody |
Examples | "Fortunately, I missed the hurricane" |
Synonyms | escape |
Broader | avoid |