| 单词 | missing, presumed dead |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmissing, presumed dead b. spec. Of a person, esp. after an accident or during wartime: reported as absent and not yet confirmed as alive or dead, captured, etc. Frequently in missing in action and missing, presumed dead and variants. Also in extended use.See also quot. 1649 at sense A. 1a. ΚΠ a1839 T. Hood Waterloo Ballad in Hood's Own 282/2 Before I'm set in the Gazette As wounded, dead, and missing. 1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. xxvii. 212 In a moment the missing man was drawn from between its jaws [sc. of the fissure]. 1900 Daily News 26 May 4/2 War Office Statement... The term ‘missing’ means that a soldier's fate has not been definitely ascertained. 1917 ‘Contact’ Airman's Outings p. xii Once eleven of our machines were posted as ‘missing’ in the space of two days. 1952 M. Allingham Tiger in Smoke i. 12 The War Box cited him ‘Missing believed killed’. 1962 Listener 11 Oct. 585/1 His [sc. Schönberg's] music seemed dead-alive on more than one occasion... Ernest Newman..reported him missing, presumed dead, just because he did not seem to have made it in time. 1991 J. Barth Last Voy. Somebody the Sailor 119 Seaman 1st Class Joseph Behler, Jr., was missing in action in the Pacific theater of operations. < as lemmas |
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