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disappear
dis·ap·pear D0250200 (dĭs′ə-pîr′)v. dis·ap·peared, dis·ap·pear·ing, dis·ap·pears v.intr.1. To pass out of sight; vanish: The moon disappeared behind the clouds.2. To cease to be seen; be missing or unfound: Her purse disappeared from her locker. The plane disappeared somewhere over the Pacific Ocean.3. To cease to exist: Dinosaurs disappeared at the end of the Cretaceous Period.v.tr. To cause (someone) to disappear, especially by kidnapping or murder.
dis′ap·pear′ance n.Synonyms: disappear, evanesce, evaporate, fade, vanish
These verbs mean to pass out of sight or existence: a skyscraper disappearing in the fog; time seeming to evanesce; courage evaporating; memories fading away; hope slowly vanishing.disappear (ˌdɪsəˈpɪə) vb1. (intr) to cease to be visible; vanish2. (intr) to go away or become lost, esp secretly or without explanation3. (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) ˌdisapˈpearance ndis•ap•pear (ˌdɪs əˈpɪər)
v.i. 1. to cease to be seen; vanish from sight. 2. to cease to exist or be known; pass away. v.t. 3. to kidnap, imprison, or kill (someone, esp. an opponent of a right-wing Latin American government). [1520–30] syn: disappear, fade, vanish mean that something or someone passes from sight or existence. disappear is used of whatever suddenly or gradually goes away: We watched them turn down a side street and disappear. fade suggests a complete or partial disappearance that proceeds gradually and often by means of a blending into something else: Dusk faded into darkness. vanish suggests complete, generally rapid disappearance: The sun vanished behind clouds. disappearIf someone or something disappears, they go or are taken to a place where they can't be seen or found. I saw the car disappear round the corner.She disappeared down the corridor.Tools disappeared and were never found.Be Careful!
Don't use disappeared as an adjective. If you can't find something because it is not in its usual place, don't say that it 'is disappeared'. You say that it has disappeared. He discovered that a pint of milk had disappeared from the fridge.By the time the examiners got to work, most of the records had disappeared.disappear
Past participle: disappeared
Gerund: disappearing
| Imperative |
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| disappear | | disappear |
| Present |
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| I disappear | | you disappear | | he/she/it disappears | | we disappear | | you disappear | | they disappear |
| Preterite |
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| I disappeared | | you disappeared | | he/she/it disappeared | | we disappeared | | you disappeared | | they disappeared |
| Present Continuous |
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| I am disappearing | | you are disappearing | | he/she/it is disappearing | | we are disappearing | | you are disappearing | | they are disappearing |
| Present Perfect |
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| I have disappeared | | you have disappeared | | he/she/it has disappeared | | we have disappeared | | you have disappeared | | they have disappeared |
| Past Continuous |
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| I was disappearing | | you were disappearing | | he/she/it was disappearing | | we were disappearing | | you were disappearing | | they were disappearing |
| Past Perfect |
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| I had disappeared | | you had disappeared | | he/she/it had disappeared | | we had disappeared | | you had disappeared | | they had disappeared |
| Future |
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| I will disappear | | you will disappear | | he/she/it will disappear | | we will disappear | | you will disappear | | they will disappear |
| Future Perfect |
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| I will have disappeared | | you will have disappeared | | he/she/it will have disappeared | | we will have disappeared | | you will have disappeared | | they will have disappeared |
| Future Continuous |
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| I will be disappearing | | you will be disappearing | | he/she/it will be disappearing | | we will be disappearing | | you will be disappearing | | they will be disappearing |
| Present Perfect Continuous |
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| I have been disappearing | | you have been disappearing | | he/she/it has been disappearing | | we have been disappearing | | you have been disappearing | | they have been disappearing |
| Future Perfect Continuous |
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| I will have been disappearing | | you will have been disappearing | | he/she/it will have been disappearing | | we will have been disappearing | | you will have been disappearing | | they will have been disappearing |
| Past Perfect Continuous |
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| I had been disappearing | | you had been disappearing | | he/she/it had been disappearing | | we had been disappearing | | you had been disappearing | | they had been disappearing |
| Conditional |
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| I would disappear | | you would disappear | | he/she/it would disappear | | we would disappear | | you would disappear | | they would disappear |
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| I would have disappeared | | you would have disappeared | | he/she/it would have disappeared | | we would have disappeared | | you would have disappeared | | they would have disappeared |
Thesaurus| Verb | 1. | disappear - get lost, as without warning or explanation; "He disappeared without a trace"vanish, go awayfall away, fall off - diminish in size or intensityfall - go as if by falling; "Grief fell from our hearts"die - disappear or come to an end; "Their anger died"; "My secret will die with me!"go - be abolished or discarded; "These ugly billboards have to go!"; "These luxuries all had to go under the Khmer Rouge"absent, remove - go away or leave; "He absented himself"blow over, evanesce, fleet, fade, pass off, pass - disappear gradually; "The pain eventually passed off"fade, wither - lose freshness, vigor, or vitality; "Her bloom was fading"skip town, take a powder - disappear without notifying anyone (idiom)die off, die out - become extinct; "Dinosaurs died out"desorb - go away from the surface to which (a substance) is adsorbedappear - come into sight or view; "He suddenly appeared at the wedding"; "A new star appeared on the horizon" | | 2. |  disappear - become invisible or unnoticeable; "The effect vanished when day broke"vanish, go awaydematerialise, dematerialize - become immaterial; disappearclear - go away or disappear; "The fog cleared in the afternoon"bob under - disappear suddenly, as if under the surface of a body of waterend, cease, terminate, finish, stop - have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical; "the bronchioles terminate in a capillary bed"; "Your rights stop where you infringe upon the rights of other"; "My property ends by the bushes"; "The symphony ends in a pianissimo" | | 3. | disappear - cease to exist; "An entire civilization vanished"vanishend, cease, terminate, finish, stop - have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical; "the bronchioles terminate in a capillary bed"; "Your rights stop where you infringe upon the rights of other"; "My property ends by the bushes"; "The symphony ends in a pianissimo"come along, appear - come into being or existence, or appear on the scene; "Then the computer came along and changed our lives"; "Homo sapiens appeared millions of years ago" | | 4. | disappear - become less intense and fade away gradually; "her resistance melted under his charm"; "her hopes evaporated after years of waiting for her fiance"evaporate, meltweaken - become weaker; "The prisoner's resistance weakened after seven days" |
disappearverb1. vanish, evaporate, recede, drop out of sight, vanish off the face of the earth, evanesce, be lost to view or sight The car drove off and disappeared from sight.
vanish appear, arrive, reappear, materialize2. pass, go away, wane, ebb, fade away The problem should disappear altogether by the age of five.3. flee, bolt, run away, fly, escape, split (slang), retire, withdraw, take off (informal), get away, vanish, depart, go, make off, abscond, take flight, do a runner (slang), scarper (Brit. slang), slope off, cut and run (informal), beat a hasty retreat, make your escape, make your getaway The prisoner disappeared after being released on bail.4. be lost, be taken, be stolen, go missing, be mislaid My wallet seems to have disappeared.5. cease, end, fade, vanish, dissolve, expire, evaporate, perish, die out, pass away, cease to exist, melt away, leave no trace, cease to be known The immediate threat has disappeared.disappearverb1. To pass out of sight either gradually or suddenly:evanesce, evaporate, fade, fade out, vanish.2. To cease to exist:die (away or out), expire.Translationsdisappear (disəˈpiə) verb1. to vanish from sight. The sun disappeared slowly below the horizon. 消失不見 消失不见2. to fade out of existence. This custom had disappeared by the end of the century. 不復存在 不复存在3. to go away so that other people do not know where one is. A search is being carried out for the boy who disappeared from his home on Monday. 失蹤 失踪ˌdisapˈpearance noun 消失 消失disappear
do a disappearing actTo vanish from sight or flee suddenly from a place. My kids always do a disappearing act when I tell them it's time for their chores. The three of us did a disappearing act, heading for the Mexican border so we could leave this all behind us.See also: act, disappearpull a disappearing actTo depart or go away very suddenly or without warning, especially so as to avoid doing something. My roommate loves to throw parties here, but she always pulls a disappearing act the next day when everything needs to be cleaned up! Brian is nearly two weeks late finishing his sales report—that's why he's been pulling a disappearing act whenever the boss is around.See also: act, disappear, pulldisappear from (something)1. To become no longer visible. I watched Jill's car drive away until it disappeared from view.2. To become missing from some place, as if having been removed or become lost (usually to someone's surprise or confusion). I would give you my stapler, but it seems to have disappeared from my desk. That poor little girl disappeared from that school back in the '80s and was never found.See also: disappeardisappear into thin airTo vanish completely and without a trace. I would give you my stapler, but it seems to have disappeared into thin air.See also: air, disappear, thindisappear off the face of the earthTo vanish completely and without a trace. Has anyone talked to Christina lately? It's like she disappeared off the face of the earth.See also: disappear, earth, face, of, offdisappear without (a) trace1. To disappear without any indication to one's or something's whereabouts. Police have been searching for two weeks to find a young girl who disappeared without trace from her home in Rochester. Authorities are puzzled by the navy submarine that seemingly disappeared without a trace last Thursday.2. To be forgotten about by the population as a whole, especially after being very popular. The digital pets fad took the world by storm in the late 1990s, but disappeared without a trace after a few years.See also: disappear, trace, withoutdisappear into the woodworkTo recede or absent oneself from public view; to become or remain hidden in society. The former movie star, never one to disappear into the woodwork, launched a very successful chain of restaurants and eventually ran for public office in Washington state. I think people expected us to disappear into the woodwork after the referendum results, but we made sure to stay firmly in the eye of the public.See also: disappear, woodworkdisappear from somethingto vanish from something or some place, especially from sight, view, or the face of the earth; to have been taken away from something. Jack disappeared all of a sudden last week, as if from the face of the earth. The car pulled away and disappeared from sight down the road.See also: disappeardo a disappearing actVanish, as in As soon as the teacher came outside, Mary did a disappearing act. This expression describes a sudden disappearance as if by magic and presumably alludes to a magician's performance. [Colloquial; early 1900s] See also: act, disappeardo a disappearing act go away without being seen to go, especially when someone is looking for you. The suggestion here is that the person has vanished as completely and inexplicably as things vanish in a magician's act.See also: act, disappeardo/perform/stage a disapˈpearing/ˈvanishing act (informal) go away or be impossible to find when people need or want you: Ian always does a disappearing act when it’s time to wash the dishes.This refers to a magic trick done by a magician in which they make themselves or another person disappear.See also: act, disappear, perform, stage, vanishdisappear/vanish off the face of the ˈearth disappear completely: Keep looking — they can’t just have vanished off the face of the earth.See also: disappear, earth, face, of, off, vanishdisappear, etc. into thin ˈair disappear, etc. suddenly and in a mysterious way: The money vanished into thin air. Nobody knows what happened to it.See also: air, thin do a disappearing act Informal To vanish.See also: act, disappearEncyclopediaSeeDisappearancedisappear
Synonyms for disappearverb vanishSynonyms- vanish
- evaporate
- recede
- drop out of sight
- vanish off the face of the earth
- evanesce
- be lost to view or sight
Antonyms- appear
- arrive
- reappear
- materialize
verb passSynonyms- pass
- go away
- wane
- ebb
- fade away
verb fleeSynonyms- flee
- bolt
- run away
- fly
- escape
- split
- retire
- withdraw
- take off
- get away
- vanish
- depart
- go
- make off
- abscond
- take flight
- do a runner
- scarper
- slope off
- cut and run
- beat a hasty retreat
- make your escape
- make your getaway
verb be lostSynonyms- be lost
- be taken
- be stolen
- go missing
- be mislaid
verb ceaseSynonyms- cease
- end
- fade
- vanish
- dissolve
- expire
- evaporate
- perish
- die out
- pass away
- cease to exist
- melt away
- leave no trace
- cease to be known
Synonyms for disappearverb to pass out of sight either gradually or suddenlySynonyms- evanesce
- evaporate
- fade
- fade out
- vanish
verb to cease to existSynonymsSynonyms for disappearverb get lost, as without warning or explanationSynonymsRelated Words- fall away
- fall off
- fall
- die
- go
- absent
- remove
- blow over
- evanesce
- fleet
- fade
- pass off
- pass
- wither
- skip town
- take a powder
- die off
- die out
- desorb
Antonymsverb become invisible or unnoticeableSynonymsRelated Words- dematerialise
- dematerialize
- clear
- bob under
- end
- cease
- terminate
- finish
- stop
verb cease to existSynonymsRelated Words- end
- cease
- terminate
- finish
- stop
Antonymsverb become less intense and fade away graduallySynonymsRelated Words |