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▸ verb: (transitive, intransitive, physical) To avoid hitting.
▸ verb: (transitive) To fail to achieve or attain.
▸ verb: (transitive) To fail to experience, attend, partake, take advantage of, etc.
▸ verb: (transitive) To avoid or escape.
▸ verb: (transitive) To become aware of the loss or absence of; to feel the want or need of, sometimes with regret.
▸ verb: (transitive) To fail to understand.
▸ verb: (transitive) To fail to notice; to have a shortcoming of perception; overlook.
▸ verb: (transitive) To be too late to connect with or meet something or someone (a means of transportation, a deadline, etc.).
▸ verb: (transitive, mostly continuous tenses) To be wanting; to lack something that should be present (see also adjectival missing).
▸ verb: (transitive, slang) To spare someone of something unwanted or undesirable.
▸ verb: (poker, said of a card) To fail to help the hand of a player.
▸ verb: (sports) To fail to score (a goal).
▸ verb: (intransitive, obsolete) To go wrong; to err.
▸ verb: (intransitive, obsolete) To be absent, deficient, or wanting.
▸ noun: A failure to physically hit.
▸ noun: A failure to obtain or accomplish something; a failure to succeed.
▸ noun: An act of avoidance (usually used with the verb give).
▸ noun: (informal) Someone or something whose loss or absence is felt.
▸ noun: (computing) The situation where an item is not found in a cache and therefore needs to be explicitly loaded.
▸ noun: (snooker) A foul shot that fails to hit the target ball, where the player has, in the referee's judgement, not made every effort to play a legal shot; in addition to conceding points for the foul, the player can be made to play the shot again.
▸ noun: (obsolete) Error, fault; misdeed, wrongdoing, sin.
▸ noun: (obsolete) Hurt or harm from a mistake or accident.
▸ noun: (obsolete) Loss, lack want; hence, the feeling of loss.
▸ noun: A title of respect for a young woman (usually unmarried) with or without a name used.
▸ noun: A term of address by a student for a female teacher.
▸ noun: An unmarried woman; a girl.
▸ noun: A kept woman; a mistress.
▸ noun: (card games) In the game of three-card loo, an extra hand, dealt on the table, which may be substituted for the hand dealt to a player.
▸ noun: Form of address for a female teacher or a waitress.
▸ noun: Used in title of the (female) winner of a beauty contest, prefixing the country or other region that she represents.
▸ noun: (Philippines) A respectful term of address or reference to a woman of higher rank or position before the woman's given name or nickname.
▸ noun: (law) Mississippi, as used in case citations.
▸ noun: Initialism of medium intensity steady state.
▸ noun: Initialism of microbially induced sedimentary structure.
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