Disappear

/dɪsəˈpɪə/ · verb

Meaning

(intransitive) To vanish..

Definitions by Sense

1. (intransitive) To vanish.
2. (intransitive) To go missing; to become a missing person.
3. (intransitive) To go away; to become lost.
4. (transitive, often euphemistic) To make vanish; especially, to abduct or murder for political reasons.

Example Sentences

Eighteen years after Jaycee Dugard disappeared in 1991, she was found alive in the summer of 2009.

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.

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 had disappeared.

The Chinese government is well-known for disappearing particularly vocal political dissidents.

"Did they disappear him?" "I don’t know." "What will you do if they decide to disappear you?"

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.

"It's such an honoring for Native people in this country, when we've been so disappeared and disregarded," Harjo says.

The book centres on Eilish Stack, a scientist, mother of four and wife to a teacher trade unionist who has been disappeared by the secret police.

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• disappears
• disappearing
• disappeared

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