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disappear

[ dis-uh-peer ]

verb (used without object)

  1. to cease to be seen; vanish from sight.
  2. to cease to exist or be known; pass away; end gradually:

    One by one the symptoms disappeared.

  3. (of a person) to vanish under suspicious circumstances:

    The dictator's outspoken opponent disappeared that evening, shortly after midnight.



verb (used with object)

  1. to cause to disappear:

    The magician then disappeared the card.

  2. to kidnap or arrest and then imprison or kill (a political opponent) without due process of law.

disappear

/ ˌdɪsəˈpɪə /

verb

  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)


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Derived Forms

  • ˌdisapˈpearance, noun

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Other Words From

  • non·dis·ap·pear·ing adjective
  • un·dis·ap·pear·ing adjective

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Word History and Origins

Origin of disappear1

First recorded in 1520–30; dis- 1 + appear

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Synonym Study

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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Example Sentences

Students leave Sullivan for forced marriages, or their families move, or they simply disappear from the roster.

During that time, a flood of reports from female Afghan journalists began to emerge, in which they detailed their experiences watching their freedom disappear overnight and relinquished to Taliban militants and newly imposed Sharia law.

If MJ, for instance, forgets his secret identity, their bond will disappear.

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Once that’s done, you’ll see a small thumbnail down in the lower left-hand corner—tap the Edit button next to the thumbnail before it disappears to start tweaking and annotating your picture.

We know that people are disappearing—not to be heard from again.

It is wild that something that would seem to be so scandalous would just disappear from the press.

Ultimately, all it took was the mere mention of a lawyer for the perpetrator to delete the accounts and disappear completely.

The CAP paper estimates that if current trends continue unabated, overtime pay will disappear entirely by 2026.

The brash, engaged, occasionally self-centered ex-lawmaker seemed to retreat inward and practically disappear.

Because this food source could abruptly disappear at any time, cutworm moths cannot be counted on to replace pine nuts.

The color does not disappear upon boiling, which excludes diacetic acid.

The hills disappear some miles above this city, and henceforward to the sea all is flat and tame as a marsh.

Quinin causes them rapidly to disappear from the peripheral blood, and few or none may be found after its administration.

As I receded, the watery veil would disappear, and as I approached it would again take form.

Sometimes a trenchful of the enemy would fire a volley and half of them disappear through gullies leading to other cover.

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