Dead person
Dead person noun - Someone who is no longer alive.
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Missing and dead person are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Missing" instead a noun phrase "Dead person".
Missing
Missing adjective - No longer possessed.
Dead person and missing are semantically related. You can use "Dead person" instead a noun "Missing".
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- There have been at least a couple of inversions in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit that the detectives have looked for a dead person only to find that she was missing for all those years, staying with or waiting for her kidnapper.
- The fact is that you can file a report immediately when a person is not where they're supposed to be and can't be contacted, and not going to the police immediately can lead to a missing person becoming a dead person.
Source: Artistic License Law - Dead Person Conversation: A bit more than midway through the novel, the late Annie Aronburg appears to one of the rebel leaders and implores him to tell the troops to let go of the obsessive need to search for her missing portrait.
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