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disappearing

noun B1
  1. disappearance

Plural disappearings

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I was still looking rather ruefully after the rapidly disappearing luggage-van which contained my wardrobe, when Holmes pulled my sleeve and pointed up the line.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, p. 117 · B2
“It would strike him that in disappearing he might throw all pursuit off his track, and at the same time have an ample and crushing revenge upon his old sweetheart, if he could give the impression that he had been murdered by her only child.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes, p. 66 · C1
Finally we stopped and sat panting on two rocks, while we watched him disappearing in the distance.
The Hound of the Baskervilles, p. 125 · C1
The first was just disappearing in the straits of Bonifacio; the other, following an opposite direction, was about to round the Island of Corsica.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 255 · C1

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