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disappear

[dis-uh-peer]

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verb (used without object)

to cease to be seen; vanish from sight.

to cease to exist or be known; pass away; end gradually: One by one the symptoms disappeared.

Origin:
1520–30; dis-¹ + appear

Related forms

non·dis·ap·pear·ing, adjective

un·dis·ap·pear·ing, adjective

Synonyms
1. Disappear, fade, vanish suggest that something passes from sight. Disappear is used of whatever suddenly or gradually goes out of sight: We watched him turn down a side street and then disappear. Fade suggests a (complete or partial) disappearance that proceeds gradually and often by means of a blending into something else: Colors in the sky at sunrise quickly fade. Vanish suggests complete, generally rapid, and often mysterious disappearance: A mirage can vanish as suddenly as it appears.

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But without insects and microbes, humans would disappear quickly.

Lounsbury may have other ways of making his problems disappear.

Nor do the liabilities disappear if the pension scheme fails to achieve its targeted returns.

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But without insects and microbes, humans would disappear quickly.

Lounsbury may have other ways of making his problems disappear.

Nor do the liabilities disappear if the pension scheme fails to achieve its targeted returns.

But they sometimes disappear for weeks, diving more than a mile down and resting in the chilly deep for a spell.

Sunspots have long been known to appear and disappear from the sun's surface.

We all need to be more tolerant of each other so that our own cultures do not disappear.

Twigs have flat, corky wings that disappear on older growth.

In the early going, he's not going to completely disappear.

Though the plant is again operational, with some limitations, the damage will not soon disappear.

Many students disappear after that caveat, but some.

For one, its physical incarnation will not disappear any time soon.

It's not a perfect system, but many believe it is better than letting the beaches disappear.

In this incarnation, it suddenly matters less that symptoms may disappear without patients figuring out the underlying cause.

Disappear from your desk for a coffee run or a smoke break---that's fine.

All traces of the plant disappear by the time summer arrives add to my plant list.

More than half of the world's languages are expected to disappear within the next century.

Our jobs can simply disappear with the crisp signature of a board member or the ringing gavel of a state legislature.

They believe that, unless something is done to stop global warming, they could disappear as the sea rises.

Under deeper cover, it can disappear beneath the sponges and other marine life it uses to adorn its shell.

Anyone who has ever owned an outdoor cat knows that it tends to disappear for hours, sometimes days, at a time.

Pants widened my hips, shrank my legs and made my waist disappear.

All traces of the plant disappear by the time summer arrives more add to my plant list enlarge.

When your rental is up, the notes will disappear from the library's copy because they're stored privately.

Some of those are predicted to disappear with climate change, but probably not in your lifetime.

Second, that crossbreeding can cause a characteristic to disappear for a generation.

These two seven-Month-old cubs thought that holding hands would make the danger disappear.

And as coral reefs die off, the abundant marine life that once congregated around them will disappear.

Before long, the road begins to climb, trees disappear and rocks outnumber what is left of the vegetation.

After the sun goes down, pale yellow flowers don't disappear into dark shadows.

These pixelated pups exist only in a handheld game, never die, and disappear when she snaps the case shut.

When that presence is no more, it's only a matter of time for the relationship to disappear.

It will not disappear as a result of one good quarter.

Equatorial snow can take thousands of years to disappear.

Truck traffic clogged the road, bisecting vegetable patches and rice paddies that seemed to disappear into the fog that morning.

We saw her slowly disappear into what seemed to be a small cave.

Set these out at your next open house and watch them disappear.

When you treat the internet as an external hard drive, you must be prepared for stuff to disappear.

If higher education costs were reduced, this conversation would disappear.

The big question now is when the ice will disappear totally each summer.

In the archives of the brain our lives linger or disappear.

To measure a star's diameter, one increases the separation between the apertures until the fringes disappear.

As more and more interbreeding occurs, the smaller population will eventually disappear.

So, go on, indulge yourselves before the weekend and this great weather disappear.

Incremental savings disappear after the third family member.

Without the protection of tenure, they claim, diversity of debate and thought in academe would disappear.

They tempt governments to splurge with money that may disappear tomorrow.

Learn more about these big fish before they disappear.

Sadly, the new mouse lemurs may well disappear almost as suddenly as they were discovered.

Just because it's more equipt than you, doesn't mean you should make it disappear.

They'll make the eyebrow terraces all but disappear.

Without the subsidies propping the industry up or the minimum ethanol mandate in gasoline, it would disappear.

But a complex mix of economic, social, and cultural factors is now causing them to disappear at a faster pace.

We know that the latest theories of quantum space understand that particles appear and disappear from existence.

One could disappear for good and nobody would have seen anything even the police.

The trend towards thrift will not disappear when the economy picks up.

Suddenly they disappear inside the clouds-one plane fairly close to the sea surface, and the other much higher in the system.

But the challenge of low-cost carriers and greater price transparency will not disappear.

Protective barrier islands and wetlands may disappear.

But the evaporating oil also created tiny particles known as aerosols, which don't disappear so quickly.

Many faculty have been here for decades, while others disappear over the summers.

Worst-case warming scenario may bring totally new kinds of tropical climate and cause others to disappear.

There is no shortage of sad stories to remind us how easy it is to disappear when no one is looking for you.

China's brands and its innovative ability would disappear.

The let you take great pictures at any time, but disappear into your pocket when you don't need them.

The idea of developing technology to make digital data disappear after a specified period of time is not new.

Specialties will vanish, teaching positions will shift and disappear.

Women hold hurried protests before they too disappear.

The wreck's salvagers say such decline makes it urgent to collect artifacts before they disappear.

With the value of ocean-view land soaring, vintage motels are starting to disappear as their owners sell to condo.

She is a cool, calm female killer who creatively makes enemies disappear with the use of a.

Nobody familiar with the power grid expects blackouts to disappear entirely.

Related words become brighter and closer as less related ones disappear.

What a smart wife to disappear for half of the packing days ahead.

Manufacturing jobs disappear because economies are healthy, not sick.

But everyone was surprised when a large lake began to disappear into a long fissure created by one of last summer's earthquakes.

When the electric current is turned on, the rigor and tremors of this movement disorder disappear instantly.

They die back completely and disappear in early summer, and the cycle begins again.

The cables seem to disappear into the sea, where large blue plastic balls bob in the waves.

Then they disappear into the woodwork, never to be seen again.

The print dialogue box may begin to disappear briefly but then reappear.

They also saw that those that disagreed tended to disappear or die.

But your advantage is about to disappear in a hail of electric shock.

Bennett says, noting that residents are distrustful of researchers who disappear when their grants dry.

Needless to say, the problem did not disappear with.

Some of the antiparticles are trapped by the black hole's gravity and disappear over the event horizon before they can recombine.

Any smaller than this, and the computer would disappear inside the electrical outlet.

If the evolutionists are right, those feelings are rooted in women's evolutionary history and will not disappear anytime soon.

America's never more than limited enthusiasm for new nuclear plants may disappear altogether.

These two seven-month-old cubs thought that holding hands would make the danger disappear.

Most computer users think a simple stroke of the delete key is enough to make a message disappear forever.

Get interesting, relevant, and logical and the phones will disappear.

She would disappear to the kitchen then, making coffee, and leave the men alone.

Should the population disappear the original pool of genes can be regenerated through cloning.

If it's dominant, it would express in half the offspring, and not disappear by the fourth generation.

Avatars appear or disappear automatically as users go in and out of range.

Red shows confidence and you won't disappear into the clone sea.

Within companies, cherished perks will disappear and power will ebb from visionary bosses to the chief financial officer.

Those glaciers are receding and many will disappearthis century, and the water supply will disappear along with them.

If a student is unethical, and skilled, your comments and grades could disappear.

Another worry is that adopted children may disappear from view when they cross international borders.

Two dozen rickety metal rungs spot-welded to the inside of the pipe disappear straight down into the darkness.

It can be compared to a cosmic movie where atoms everywhere appear and disappear synchronously.

When the stressors to survival that elicited fear disappear the organism returns to normal behaviors that sustain life.

They must change in a big way, or they will disappear.

So why not bring in a group of temporary managers who will disappear as soon as the goods hit the.

What the web site does not note is that these side effects disappear when one stops using.

When asked a question, his eyes drift, and his mind seems to momentarily disappear from the room.

As the climate became drier, the vegetation that supported grazing livestock began to disappear.

But a plastic that vanishes might make that restriction disappear.

They are much less concerned with generalization and replication, although these factors might not disappear entirely.

And the compliance costs of duplicate accounting, the bulk of which investors ultimately bear, will disappear.

The biofuel industry would disappear a few days after government support of it ended.

She also frequently wanders off in another direction without any warning, then can disappear for an entire day, unreachable.

It could all disappear into static tomorrow, and the world would be all the richer for it.

If the rain forest is completely cut down, these animals will lose their habitats altogether and could disappear from the region.

The condensation will disappear when the internal atmosphere has been completely replaced by hot steam.

Record labels have been hit much harder by piracy and have seen retail outlets disappear.

Mountains and valleys emerge and disappear due to plate tectonics.

State leaders, however, are loth to see wood-products jobs disappear.

Certain attributes of psychologists seem to disappear under close examination as well.

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World English Dictionary

disappear (ˌdɪsəˈpɪə)

—vb
1.	(intr) to cease to be visible; vanish
2.	(intr) to go away or become lost, esp secretly or without explanation
3.	(intr) to cease to exist, have effect, or be known; become extinct or lost: the pain has disappeared
4.	(tr) (esp in South and Central America) to arrest secretly and presumably imprison or kill (a member of an opposing political group)

disap'pearance

—n

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Word Origin & History

disappear

1520s, from dis- "do the opposite of" (see dis-) + appear. Related: Disappeared; disappearing; disappears. Slang disappearing act is originally of magic shows; in figurative sense of "getting away" first attested 1913.

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