Away
Away adjective - Not at a certain place.
Usage example: he's away right now, but he should be back at the office next week
Missing
Missing adjective - Not at a certain place.
Usage example: our church organist is missing this morning, so we'll have to sing without her accompaniment
Away is a synonym for missing in absence topic. You can use "Away" instead the word "Missing" as an adjective or an adverb, if it concerns topics such as gone. popular alternative
Mutual synonyms
Both words in one sentence
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They dive at each other, blasting away and missing until they are locked with their empty pistols at each other's heads.
Source: No Range Like Point-Blank Range - So Rooney himself is an example of cutting away early and missing one of the best plays ever in professional football.
Source: Missing the Good Stuff -
The local male (probably his father) seems to have gone missing and therefore wasn't around to drive him away and mate with his mother.
Source: Basement-Dweller
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