missing

missing
missing (adj.) "not present, absent," 1520s, from prp. of MISS (Cf. miss) (v.). Military sense of "not present after a battle but not known to have been killed or captured" is from 1845. Missing link first attested 1851 in Lyell. Missing person is from 1876.

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