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means To fail to hit, reach, catch, or achieve something you were aiming for — or to feel the ache of someone's absence.

from From Old English 'missan,' rooted in a very old Germanic verb family meaning 'to go wrong' or 'fail to hit.' That same root quietly branched into German 'missen' and Dutch 'missen,' and also seeded the 'mis-' prefix (as in mistake, misplace) — the same whiff of error running through all of them. The 'lady/Miss' sense of the word is a completely separate story, a worn-down shortening of 'mistress,' so the swing-and-miss miss and the polite-title miss are really just homonyms that wandered in from different directions.