Definition of "missed" []

• Simple past tense and past participle of miss. (verb)

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• "Missed Abortion The term missed abortion is used  when the fetus has died but is retained in the uterus, usually for some weeks."
• ""Learning to Live With Radical Islam" a front page plea by Newsweek to avoid drifting toward more and more war with the Muslim world (unless Googling the title missed something) didn't get comments in the antiwar blog spear except a poorly located one on Huffington Post."
• "But in his Sept. 5 speech, Bush instead cited other historical failures – what he called missed opportunities to eliminate Lenin and Hitler when they were living in obscurity and writing about their improbable dreams of power."