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misses
 
Noun miss has 2 senses
  1. girl, miss, missy, young lady, young woman, fille - a young woman; "a young lady of 18"
    --1 is a kind of woman, adult female
    --1 has particulars:
     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
  2. miss, misfire - a failure to hit (or meet or find etc)
    --2 is a kind of failure
    Derived forms: verb miss7, verb miss5
Verb miss has 9 senses
  1. miss, lose - 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"
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s something
    Somebody ----s somebody
  2. miss - feel or suffer from the lack of; "He misses his mother"
    --2 is one way to     desire, want
    Sample sentence:
    They miss moving
  3. miss - fail to attend an event or activity; "I missed the concert"; "He missed school for a week"
    --3 is one way to     fail, neglect
    Antonyms: attend, go to
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s something
  4. neglect, pretermit, omit, drop, miss, leave out, overlook, overleap - leave undone or leave out; "How could I miss that typo?"; "The workers on the conveyor belt miss one out of ten"
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s something
    Somebody ----s somebody
    Somebody ----s to INFINITIVE
  5. miss - fail to reach or get to; "She missed her train"
    --5 is one way to     fail, go wrong, miscarry
    Derived form: noun miss2
    Sample sentence:
    Something ----s something
  6. miss, lack - be without; "This soup lacks salt"; "There is something missing in my jewellery box!"
    Antonyms: have, feature
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s something
    Something ----s something
  7. miss - fail to reach; "The arrow missed the target"
    Antonyms:     hit, strike, impinge on, run into, collide with
    Derived form: noun miss2
    Sample sentence:
    Something ----s something
  8. miss - be absent; "The child had been missing for a week"
    Sample sentences:
    Something ----s
    Somebody ----s
  9. miss, escape - fail to experience; "Fortunately, I missed the hurricane"
    --9 is one way to avoid
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s something
    Somebody ----s somebody
missed missed opportunity missed out missel thrush misselanious misselect misselling misserable misses misshap misshapen misshapenness misshaping missile-defense missile-warning missile missile

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