phrasal verb · neutral
go missing
UK/ɡəʊ ˈmɪsɪŋ/US/ɡoʊ ˈmɪsɪŋ/go MIS·sing
speakingtask2
to disappear or become unaccounted for
Examples
“Several hikers went missing during the storm.”
“My passport went missing before the trip.”
“The data from last year seems to have gone missing from the archive.”
Band 8 sentence
“After the avalanche several climbers went missing and a large-scale rescue operation began.”
Collocations
- go missing during a trip
- report someone missing
Word family
missing adjmissing person n
Common mistakes
miss→go missing
be missinged→be missing / go missing
Say it for a higher band
5be lost→6disappear→7+go missing
Synonyms
disappear
be lost
Easily confused
disappear
“The boat disappeared without a trace.”
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