Off and Missing

verb

• Kill intentionally and with premeditation.
  • usage: "The mafia boss ordered his enemies murdered"
  • synonyms: murder, slay, hit, dispatch, bump off, polish off, remove

adjective

• Not in operation or operational.
  • usage: "the oven is off"; "the lights are off"
• Below a satisfactory level.
  • usage: "an off year for tennis"; "his performance was off"
• Of events. ( no longer planned or scheduled)
  • usage: "the wedding is definitely off"
  • synonyms: cancelled
• In an unpalatable state.
  • usage: "sour milk"
  • synonyms: sour, turned
• Not performing or scheduled for duties.
  • usage: "He's off every Tuesday"

adverb

• From a particular thing or place or position (`forth' is obsolete. )
  • usage: "ran away from the lion"; "wanted to get away from there"; "sent the children away to boarding school"; "the teacher waved the children away from the dead animal"; "went off to school"; "they drove off"; "go forth and preach"
  • synonyms: away, forth
• At a distance in space or time)
  • usage: "the boat was 5 miles off (or away)"; "the party is still 2 weeks off (or away. "; "away back in the 18th century"
  • synonyms: away
• No longer on or in contact or attached.
  • usage: "clean off the dirt"; "he shaved off his mustache"

• (adv.) Denoting a different direction; not on or towards: away; as, to look off.
• (n.) The side of the field that is on the right of the wicket keeper.
• (interj.) Away; begone; -- a command to depart.
• (prep.) Not on; away from; as, to be off one's legs or off the bed; two miles off the shore.
• (a.) On the farther side; most distant; on the side of an animal or a team farthest from the driver when he is on foot; in the United States, the right side; as, the off horse or ox in a team, in distinction from the nigh or near horse or ox; the off leg.
• (adv.) In a general sense, denoting from or away from; as:.
• (adv.) Denoting the action of removing or separating; separation; as, to take off the hat or cloak; to cut off, to pare off, to clip off, to peel off, to tear off, to march off, to fly off, and the like.
• (adv.) Denoting distance or separation; as, the house is a mile off.
• (adv.) Denoting a leaving, abandonment, departure, abatement, interruption or remission; as, the fever goes off; the pain goes off; the game is off; all bets are off.
• (adv.) Denoting opposition or negation.
• (a.) Designating a time when one is not strictly attentive to business or affairs or is absent from his post, and, hence, a time when affairs are not urgent; as, he took an off day for fishing: an off year in politics.

• (p.pr.&vb.n.) of Miss.
• (v.i.) Absent from the place where it was expected to be found; lost; wanting; not present when called or looked for.

verb

• Fail to perceive or to catch with the senses or the mind.
  • usage: "I missed that remark"; "She missed his point"; "We lost part of what he said"
  • synonyms: miss, lose
• Feel or suffer from the lack of.
  • usage: "He misses his mother"
  • synonyms: miss
• Fail to attend an event or activity.
  • usage: "I missed the concert"; "He missed school for a week"
  • synonyms: miss
• Leave undone or leave out.
  • usage: "How could I miss that typo"; "The workers on the conveyor belt miss one out of ten"
  • synonyms: neglect, pretermit, omit, drop, miss, leave out, overlook, overleap
• Fail to reach or get to.
  • usage: "She missed her train"
  • synonyms: miss
• Be without.
  • usage: "This soup lacks salt"; "There is something missing in my jewelry box"
  • synonyms: miss, lack
• Fail to reach.
  • usage: "The arrow missed the target"
  • synonyms: miss
• Be absent.
  • usage: "The child had been missing for a week"
  • synonyms: miss
• Fail to experience.
  • usage: "Fortunately, I missed the hurricane"
  • synonyms: miss, escape

adjective

• Not able to be found.
  • usage: "missing in action"; "a missing person"
• Nonexistent.
  • usage: "the thumb is absent"; "her appetite was lacking"
  • synonyms: lacking, absent, wanting

(DoD) A casualty status for which the United States Code provides statutory guidance concerning missing members of the Military Services. Excluded are personnel who are in an absent without leave, deserter, or dropped-from-rolls status. A person declared missing is categorized as follows. a. beleaguered--The casualty is a member of an organized element that has been surrounded by a hostile force to prevent escape of its members. b. captured--The casualty has been seized as the result of action of an unfriendly military or paramilitary force in a foreign country. c. detained--The casualty is prevented from proceeding or is restrained in custody for alleged violation of international law or other reason claimed by the government or group under which the person is being held. d. interned--The casualty is definitely known to have been taken into custody of a nonbelligerent foreign power as the result of and for reasons arising out of any armed conflict in which the Armed Forces of the United States are engaged. e. missing--The casualty is not present at his or her duty location due to apparent involuntary reasons and whose location is unknown. f. missing in action--The casualty is a hostile casualty, other than the victim of a terrorist activity, who is not present at his or her duty location due to apparent involuntary reasons and whose location is unknown. Also called MIA. See also casualty category; casualty status.