Disappear

//dɪsəˈpɪə// verb

Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To vanish. intransitive
  2. 2
    become less intense and fade away gradually wordnet
  3. 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. 4
    get lost, as without warning or explanation wordnet
  5. 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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  1. 6
    cease to exist wordnet
  2. 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."

  3. 8
    become invisible or unnoticeable wordnet

Etymology

From Middle English disapeeren, equivalent to dis- + appear. Displaced native Old English fordwīnan.

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