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disappear

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dis·ap·pear  (ds-pîr)
v. dis·ap·peared, dis·ap·pear·ing, dis·ap·pears
v.intr.
1. To pass out of sight; vanish.
2. To cease to exist.
v.tr.
To cause (someone) to disappear, especially by kidnapping or murder.

disap·pearance 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
Verb
1. to cease to be visible; vanish
2. to go away or become lost, esp. without explanation
3. to cease to exist: the pain has disappeared
disappearance n
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Verb1.disappear - get lost, as without warning or explanation; "He disappeared without a trace"
fall away, fall off - diminish in size or intensity
fall - 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 adsorbed
appear - come into sight or view; "He suddenly appeared at the wedding"; "A new star appeared on the horizon"
2.disappeardisappear - become invisible or unnoticeable; "The effect vanished when day broke"
dematerialise, dematerialize - become immaterial; disappear
clear - go away or disappear; "The fog cleared in the afternoon"
bob under - disappear suddenly, as if under the surface of a body of water
end, 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"
end, 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"
weaken - become weaker; "The prisoner's resistance weakened after seven days"

disappear
verb 1. vanish, recede, drop out of sight, vanish off the face of the earth, evanesce, be lost to view or sight << OPPOSITE appear
verb 2. pass, wane, ebb, fade away
verb 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
4. be lost, be taken, be stolen, go missing, be mislaid
verb 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
Translations
Spanish disappear [dɪsəˈpɪəʳ] videsaparecer
French disappear [dɪsəˈpɪəʳ] vidisparaître
German disappear [dɪsəˈpɪəʳ] viverschwinden;
(custom etc) → aussterben

Italian disappear [dɪsəˈpɪəʳ] viscomparire

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The man who wrote that word upon the wall disappeared from the midst of the generations of man many centuries ago; the word, in its turn, has been effaced from the wall of the church; the church will, perhaps, itself soon disappear from the face of the earth.
Thus, when he had bumped his nose on the back-wall a few times, he accepted that he would not disappear into walls.
But if even that cannot be, command me to disappear, and I disappear.
 
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