Dead and Missing

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Dead adjective - No longer existing.

Usage example: the dead Babylonian culture

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Missing and dead are semantically related in fatality topic. In some cases you can use "Missing" instead the word "Dead" as a noun or an adjective.

Nearby Word: deadly

Missing adjective - Not present or in evidence.

Usage example: any sense of how real people talk and act is missing from this novel

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Dead and missing are semantically related in fatality topic. Sometimes you can use "Dead" instead the word "Missing" as a noun or an adjective.

Nearby Words: miss, mission, missed

While nobody remembers that Sora exists during the missing year in Kingdom Hearts, Riku's only excuse was being presumed missing or dead, and Kairi and Selphie do attend school.

Source: Shouldn't We Be in School Right Now?
He finds an empty village—burnt to the ground, and all its inhabitants dead or missing.

Source: Film / Outlander
He sacrificed himself to free Carlos so that the latter could help Flanders, but Carlos is either dead or missing in the end.

Source: Theatre / Don Carlo

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