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Disappear
//dɪsəˈpɪə// verb
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Verb
- 1 To vanish. intransitive
- 2 become less intense and fade away gradually wordnet
- 3 To go missing; to become a missing person. intransitive
"Eighteen years after Jaycee Dugard disappeared in 1991, she was found alive in the summer of 2009."
- 4 get lost, as without warning or explanation wordnet
- 5 To go away; to become lost. intransitive
"I corralled the judge, and we started off across the fields[…]. And thus we came by a circuitous route to Mohair,[…]. My client welcomed the judge […] and they disappeared together into the Ethiopian card-room, which was filled with the assegais and exclamation point shields Mr. Cooke had had made at the sawmill at Beaverton."
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- 6 cease to exist wordnet
- 7 To make vanish; especially, to abduct or murder for political reasons. euphemistic, often, transitive
"The Chinese government is well-known for disappearing particularly vocal political dissidents."
- 8 become invisible or unnoticeable wordnet
Etymology
From Middle English disapeeren, equivalent to dis- + appear. Displaced native Old English fordwīnan.
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