missing

Từ điển tiếng Anh - Cambridge Advanced Learners Dictionary

missing UK US [ˈmɪs.ɪŋ] adjective
1. <E > Someone who is missing has disappeared
• Her father has been missing since September 1992.
• UK The girl went missing during a family outing to Mount Snowdon.
Thesaurus⁺: ↑Absent
2. <E > describes something that cannot be found because it is not where it should be
• The burglars have been arrested but the jewellery is still missing.
• When did you realise that the money was missing from your account?
Thesaurus⁺: ↑Absent
3. describes soldiers or military vehicles that have not returned from fighting in a war but are not known completely certainly to be dead or destroyed
• He was listed as missing in action.
Thesaurus⁺: ↑Soldiers and people who fight in wars
 
• The police have called off the search for the missing child until dawn tomorrow.
• The missing letter eventually turned up inside a book.
• A search party was sent out to look for the missing climbers.
• All of the ship's crew are missing, believed dead.
• This jigsaw puzzle has two pieces missing.

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  lacking, absent, wanting