disappear
/dɪsəˈpɪɹ/ verb A2- To vanish.
- To go missing; to become a missing person. · Eighteen years after Jaycee Dugard disappeared in 1991, she was found alive in the summer of 2009.
- To go away; to become lost.
- To make vanish; especially, to abduct or murder for political reasons. · The Chinese government is well-known for disappearing particularly vocal political dissidents.
He/she/it disappears · Past disappeared · Past participle disappeared · -ing form disappearing
Verb forms
- Base form
- disappear
- He/she/it
- disappears
- Past
- disappeared
- Past participle
- disappeared
- -ing form
- disappearing
From the library
For some minutes the whole court was in confusion, getting the Dormouse turned out, and, by the time they had settled down again, the cook had disappeared.
“If a cub can do it, there is nothing to fear.” So he strode round the corner and met the boy, took the pot from his hand, and disappeared into the mist while the boy howled with fear.
Wait my coming, O most infamous Bandar-log!” He panted up the terrace only to disappear to the head in a wave of monkeys, but he threw himself squarely on his haunches, and, spreading out his forepaws, hugged as many as he could hold, and then began to hit with a regular bat-bat-bat, like the flipping strokes of a paddle wheel.
It grew darker and darker, till at last the dragging, shifting coils disappeared, but they could hear the rustle of the scales.
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