go missing

verb

To disappear without explanation; to become lost.

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Meanings

verbgo missing (third-person singular simple present goes missing, present participle going missing, simple past went missing, past participle gone missing)

present singular third person goes missing · participle present going missing · past went missing · participle past gone missing

  1. To disappear without explanation; to become lost.

    There is a strong link between transport and the 170,000 people (almost half of them children) who go missing each year by taking one-way journeys away from home.

    2023 November 1, “Network News: SWR support for Missing People”, in RAIL, number 995, page 21
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    United's defence went missing in the 47th minute when Kolarov and Negredo combined and the predatory Aguero was once more the beneficiary with a simple side-footed finish.

    2013 September 22, Phil McNulty, “Man City 4-1 Man Utd”, in BBC Sport
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APA

go missing. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/go%20missing

MLA

“go missing.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/go%20missing. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “go missing,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/go%20missing.

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