Missed and Spent

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Missed adjective - Not caught with the senses or the mind.

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Spent and missed are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Spent" instead a verb "Missed".

Nearby Words: miss, missing

Spent adjective - Depleted in strength, energy, or freshness.

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Missed and spent are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Missed" instead a verb "Spent".

Nearby Word: spend

Siblings Henry & Bernie had spent most of the season in the top-3, and never finished lower than 4th until they missed their connecting flight into India, and were eliminated in 5th place.

Source: Shocking Elimination / The Amazing Race
He shows up at the dock right as the ship is leaving, meaning he's either spent all morning trying to go to the police, or he just woke up, in which case he'd have missed the ship anyway.

Source: Series / Titanic (1996)
To their credit, the Fire Nation realized fairly quickly they missed Aang, and spent a century trying to track him down.

Source: Nice Job Breaking It, Herod!

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