Disappear
[dɪsə'pɪə] or ['dɪsə'pɪr]
Definition
(verb.) get lost, as without warning or explanation; 'He disappeared without a trace'.
Editor: Miles--From WordNet
Definition
(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.
(v. i.) To cease to be or exist; as, the epidemic has disappeared.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. n. Vanish, be lost to view, pass out of sight.
Editor: Lorna
Synonyms and Antonyms
[See VANISH]
Typed by Aileen
Definition
v.i. to vanish from sight.—n. Disappear′ance a ceasing to appear: removal from sight flight secret withdrawal.
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Examples
- In some cases freckles are permanent, but in most cases they disappear with the coming of cold weather. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Now, having caught these words, and hearing him advance, Caroline, if there was a door within the dining-room, would glide through it and disappear. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- He saw the girl's cropped head disappear with a jerk under the robe and then he saw the horseman coming through the trees. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- The Englishman sprang quickly after him just in time to see the hind quarters of some huge animal about to disappear through the window of the cabin. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- By and by, I noticed Wemmick's arm beginning to disappear again, and gradually fading out of view. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- They rise in flocks of three hundred and flash along above the tops of the waves a distance of two or three hundred feet, then fall and disappear. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The more pure and soft the iron is, the stronger will its magnetism be while it lasts, and the more completely will it disappear when the current stops. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Now, Mr. Trelawney Hope, I should be much obliged if you would tell me exactly the circumstances under which this document disappeared. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- There was no doubt about it that he had disappeared. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- Everybody got out of the way; everybody bowed to the Emperor and his friend the Sultan; and they went by on a swinging trot and disappeared. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The breakfast-bell rang as the two girls disappeared--and even Sergeant Cuff was now obliged to give it up as a bad job! Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- How was it he had totally disappeared on leaving ship, 'till found in river? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- The weak and languid appearance of the troops, so visible before, disappeared at once. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- He disappeared in the trees turning to the left. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- I conceived the happy idea of disappearing. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- The gun is mounted on a disappearing carriage, which lowers it out of sight behind the breastworks after firing. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- I'll try, said Amy, for the advice suited her, and after a flurry to get ready, she ran after the friends, who were just disappearing over the hill. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- The manager would see him studying sometimes an article in such a paper as the Scientific American, and then disappearing to buy a few sundries for experiments. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- By disappearing from such place, and being no more heard of thereabouts. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- On reaching the end of the Charlington grounds, he sprang from his machine and led it through a gap in the hedge, disappearing from my view. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- In Fig. 200 is shown a succession of instantaneous photographs of a sportsman shooting a glass ball, and the firing of a disappearing gun. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- In that case one of the main points in favor of the accused disappears. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- She disappears, leaving me alone with Jip. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- De Candolle has observed, a common alpine species disappears. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- The opposition, however, is only seeming, and disappears when the ordinary definition is completed. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The disparity I have mentioned, therefore, almost ceases to be disparity, and (virtually) all but disappears. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- If a piece of potassium permanganate about the size of a grain of sand is put into a quart of water, the solid disappears and the water becomes a deep rich red. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- At the upper level it disappears through a similar comb and returns out of sight. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
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