Definition of Disappear

1. Verb. Get lost, as without warning or explanation. "These cars won't disappear "; "He disappeared without a trace"


2. Verb. Become invisible or unnoticeable. "The moon will soon disappear "; "The effect vanished when day broke"
Exact synonyms: Go Away, Vanish
Specialized synonyms: Dematerialise, Dematerialize, Clear, Bob Under
Generic synonyms: Cease, End, Finish, Stop, Terminate
Derivative terms: Disappearance, Disappearance, Vanisher, Vanishing

3. Verb. Cease to exist. "An entire civilization vanished"
Exact synonyms: Vanish
Generic synonyms: Cease, End, Finish, Stop, Terminate
Antonyms: Appear
Derivative terms: Disappearance

4. Verb. Become less intense and fade away gradually. "Her hopes evaporated after years of waiting for her fiance"
Exact synonyms: Evaporate, Melt
Generic synonyms: Weaken

Definition of Disappear

1. v. i. To cease to appear or to be perceived; to pass from view, gradually or suddenly; to vanish; to be no longer seen; as, darkness disappears at the approach of light; a ship disappears as she sails from port.

Definition of Disappear

1. Verb. (intransitive) To vanish. ¹

2. Verb. (transitive) To make vanish. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Disappear

1. [v -ED, -ING, -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Disappear

disannulling
disannulment
disannuls
disanoint
disanointed
disanointing
disanoints
disapparate
disapparated
disapparates
disapparating
disapparel
disapparelled
disapparelling
disapparels
disappear (current term)
disappearable
disappearance
disappearances
disappeared
disappearing
disappearing bone disease
disappears
disapply
disappoint
disappointed
disappointedly
disappointer
disappointers
disappointing

Literary usage of Disappear

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Ivanhoe: A Romance by Walter Scott (1895)
"Why do Richard and Ivanhoe disappear ? How many difficulties yet remain to be removed ? CHAPTER XLIII. — By what sights and sounds are the preparations for ..."

2. Elements of Algebra by Silvestre François Lacroix, John Farrar (1825)
"It will be readily seen, that if this radical expression stood alone in one member, we might make the radical sign to disappear by raising this member to a ..."

3. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1910)
"Besides, they disappear from view in a curious way; that is, all with the exception of Stephen, the " miracle worker," and the first martyr. ..."

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