disappear
dis·ap·pear (dis′ə pir′)
intransitive verb
- to cease to be seen; go out of sight
- to cease being; go out of existence, use, etc.; become lost or extinct
transitive verb
to cause to disappear; specif., to kidnap and execute (persons) in a clandestine program of political terror
disappear
v.
Antonyms
disappear implies either a sudden or gradual passing from sight or existence customs that have long since disappeared; vanish implies a sudden, complete, often mysterious passing from sight or existence the stain had vanished overnight; fade suggests a gradual, complete or partial disappearance, as by losing color or brilliance the design on this fabric won't fade, his reputation has faded
Preposition: over
- horizon: NEWHOUSE: I turned, swinging the camera just in time to see the rest of the group disappear over the western horizon.
Preposition: into
- obscurity: Deller never won another world championship, but nor did he disappear back into total obscurity.
- ether: However, all weblinks appear to have disappeared into the ether.
- oblivion: No sooner had friend Matthews disappeared into apparent oblivion ( tho I suspect only temporarily ) than another problem arose.
- mist: They disappear into the mist at the base of the mountains.
- undergrowth: The animal climbed a rock face on the other side of the road and disappeared into the undergrowth.
- thicket: Our guest saw Kuma walk right past the viewing deck and back again, sip some water and disappear into the thicket to relax.
Adjective complement
- overnight: A year later, a by-pass was built and most of Bob's customers disappeared overnight.
Modifying Another Word
- mysteriously: Spend time at the park's museum, depicting the story of these people who mysteriously disappeared almost 700 years ago.
- altogether: In a couple of variations the ground disappears altogether.
Followed by an intransitive particle
- along: The tail gunner had disappeared along with his gun bubble when they had hit the forest canopy.
Used with why or when
- when: But why didn't the memories disappear when my life became so painful and tearful?
Preposition: without
- trace: Over the centuries in Carlton many buildings have simply disappeared without trace.
Preposition: in
- mist: Outside Kings a crane so Huge its top disappears in the mist.
- cloud: I saw the plane and pilot disappear in a cloud of flame and smoke.
- flash: It's not just job security which can disappear in a drunken flash.
- darkness: Luckily for me they had disappeared in the darkness, and the soldiers did not shoot.
Preposition: from
- sight: In a few seconds the objects had disappeared from sight.
- scene: For nearly a year he disappeared from the political scene.
Preposition: for
- while: They took some x rays and the vets disappeared for a while.
I felt quite funny when Freud died. It was like having a continent disappear.
Je ne veux pas tomber, non, je veux dispara|"tre. I do not want to fall; I want to disappear.
Browse dictionary entries near disappear
- disannul
- disambiguate
- disallow
- disagreement
- disagreeing
- disagreeably
- disagreeable
- disagree
- disaggregate
- disafforest
- disappearance
- disappoint
- disappointed
- disappointing
- disappointment
- disapprobation
- disapproval
- disapprove
- disarm
- disarmament
