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disapparating

disapparating is the present participle and gerund of disapparate.

Meaning of disapparate

Verb

disapparate (third-person singular simple present disapparates, present participle disapparating, simple past and past participle disapparated)

  1. (intransitive) To disappear magically.
    • But again, over time and over many, many pages this scenario fails to chill: most of the “muggle” population goes about its ordinary existence, and every time the secret police close in, our heroes are able to “disapparate” — a term that always makes me think of an attempt at English by George W....2007 August 12, Christopher Hitchens, “Harry Potter: The Boy Who Lived”, in New York Times
    Antonyms:
    reapparate

Questions about disapparating

What is disapparating the present participle and gerund of?
Disapparating is the present participle and gerund of disapparate.

Words near disapparating in the dictionary

  1. disaposin
  2. disaposins
  3. disapparate
  4. disapparated
  5. disapparates
  6. disapparating
  7. disapparel
  8. disapparelled
  9. disapparelling
  10. disapparels
  11. disapparent

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Adapted from Wiktionary: disapparating (page history and authors); disapparate (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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