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missed (MIST) (verb)
1. To have failed to make contact with someone or to hit something aimed at: When Jeremy telephoned, he was told that he just missed the person with whom he wanted to talk.

Eugenia missed hitting the fly with the swatter.

2. To have avoided something: Todd just missed being hit by the bicycle in the intersection.
3. To have noticed or to have felt the absence of someone or something: When Goldie reread her essay, she realized that she had missed several key points.
4. To have failed in participating in or attending something: Randy missed several lectures this year due to illness.
mist (MIST) (noun)
A large mass of vapor at or just above the earth's surface like fog, but less dense: There was a fine mist in the valley that obscured Ingrid's view from the hillside.
mist (MIST) (verb)
To dim, to cloud, or to obscure: Time has a tendency to mist our memories.

The cloud of very fine drops of water didn't get Carlos wet because the mist missed his area.

mistura, mist.
Mixture.

A pharmaceutical term used in prescriptions.

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(Greek: mist, dimness, darkness)
(Greek: air, mist, wind)
(Latin: mist, fog, cloud, smoke)
(Greek: to smoke; smoke, mist, vapor, hot vapor, steam, cloud, fog; stupor [insensibility, numbness, dullness]; used exclusively in medicine as a reference to fever accompanied by stupor or a clouding of the mind resulting from the fever caused by a severe-infectious disease)
(Latin: steam, mist, very small drops of water)
(Greek: rain, rainstorm; showers of rain; aqueous vapor in the atmosphere; precipitation or falling down from the sky of a form of water; such as, rain, snow, hail, sleet, or mist)
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arctic mist
A light ice fog that appears as a mist of ice crystals.
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arctic smoke, steam fog, steam mist
A fog that forms when water vapor mixes with air that is much colder than the vapor's source, as when very cold air drifts across warm water.
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Rene tried to catch some fog, but he mist.
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