disappearance
/dɪsəˈpɪəɹəns/ noun B2- The action of disappearing or vanishing. · Wireless phone technology led to the disappearance of once-common coiled cords for telephone handsets.
- Passing out of sight. · From the shore, they watched the disappearance of the ships' masts into the haze.
- Leaving secretly of without explanation · The prosecuting attorney was concerned about the potential disappearance of witnesses.
- Cessation of existence.
Plural disappearances
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On seeing the rapid disappearance of the Frogs, one of the Hares cried out to his companions: “Stay, my friends, do not do as you intended; for you now see that there are creatures who are still more timid than ourselves.”
On the third night after Brunton’s disappearance, the nurse, finding her patient sleeping nicely, had dropped into a nap in the armchair, when she woke in the early morning to find the bed empty, the window open, and no signs of the invalid.
She had been terribly excited immediately after his disappearance.
It can be imagined that my close intimacy with Sherlock Holmes had interested me deeply in crime, and that after his disappearance I never failed to read with care the various problems which came before the public.
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