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disappear

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Etymology

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FromMiddle Englishdisapeeren, equivalent todis- +‎appear. Displaced nativeOld Englishfordwīnan.

Pronunciation

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Verb

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disappear (third-person singular simple presentdisappears,present participledisappearing,simple past and past participledisappeared)

  1. (intransitive) Tovanish.
    Synonyms:dematerialize,vanish,perish,dissolve
    Antonym:appear
  2. (intransitive) To go missing; to become amissing person.
    Eighteen years after Jaycee Dugarddisappeared in 1991, she was found alive in the summer of 2009.
  3. (intransitive) To go away; to become lost.
    • 1897 December (indicated as1898),Winston Churchill, chapter VIII, inThe Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.:The Macmillan Company; London:Macmillan & Co., Ltd.,→OCLC:
      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 theydisappeared 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.
    • 1927,F. E. Penny, chapter 4, inPulling the Strings:
      A turban and loincloth soaked in blood had been found; also a staff. These properties were known to have belonged to a toddy drawer. He haddisappeared.
  4. (transitive, often euphemistic) To makevanish; especially, toabduct ormurder forpolitical reasons.
    Coordinate term:suicide
    The Chinese government is well-known fordisappearing particularly vocal political dissidents.
    • 1961 November 10,Joseph Heller, “Kid Sister”, inCatch-22 […], New York, N.Y.:Simon and Schuster,→OCLC,page416:
      "Did theydisappear him?"
      "I don’t know."
      "What will you do if they decide todisappear you?"
    • 2018 May 2, Marella Oppenheim, “Excavations at Chile torture site offer new hope for relatives of disappeared”, inThe Guardian‎[1],→ISSN:
      Now a new hunt is under way to find a grave believed to contain the remains of some of those who were “disappeared” at Colonia Dignidad.
    • 2019 June 19, Lynn Neary, Patrick Jarenwattananon, quotingJoy Harjo, “Joy Harjo Becomes The First Native American U.S. Poet Laureate”, innpr‎[2]:
      "It's such an honoring for Native people in this country, when we've been sodisappeared and disregarded," Harjo says.
    • 2023 December 2, Frederick Studemann, “Civilisation is so easily lost”, inFT Weekend, Life & Arts, page11:
      The book centres on Eilish Stack, a scientist, mother of four and wife to a teacher trade unionist who has beendisappeared by the secret police.
    • 2024 October 25, Ghada Abdulfattah and Taylor Luck, “Under deadly Israeli siege, north Gaza residents face terrifying ultimatum”, inThe Christian Science Monitor‎[3]:
      Yet after her brother was detained anddisappeared by Israeli forces at a checkpoint as he evacuated south months ago, Ms. Nabil, like others, fears moving south.

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to vanish
to make vanish
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