| 单词 | missing person |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmissing person missing person n. (frequently in plural) a person whose whereabouts are unknown and who has not been traced or confirmed to be alive; frequently attributive designating an organization, etc., recording information about such persons. ΘΚΠ the world > space > place > absence > [noun] > one who is absent absenta1500 discontinuer1577 absenter1678 absentee1735 missing person1850 absence1866 1850 Fraser's Mag. Aug. 178/1 People began to tell tales of strange disappearances, in which the missing persons returned after a lapse of ten or fifteen years. 1876 ‘G. Eliot’ Daniel Deronda II. iii. xx. 39 There were safer means than advertising: men might be set to work whose business it was to find missing persons. 1943 R. Chandler Lady in Lake (1944) ii. 15 It will mean going to the Missing Persons Bureau. 1975 ‘E. Lathen’ By Hook or by Crook xv. 147 The..kids had been missing persons all through the war. 1991 J. Neel Death of Partner 17 Most missing person reports do not end in a murder. Typically they are husbands or wives walking out to live somewhere else. < as lemmas |
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