disappear
UK/dɪsəˈpɪə//dɪsəˈpɪɹ/
disappear verb: to vanish.
Verb
disappear (third-person singular simple present disappears, present participle disappearing, simple past and past participle disappeared)
- 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.
- I corralled the judge, and we started off across the fields[…]. And thus we came by a circuitous route to Mohair,[…]. My client welcomed the judge […] and they disappeared together into the Ethiopian card-room, which was filled with the assegais and exclamation point shields Mr. Cooke had had made...1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter VIII, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC
- A turban and loincloth soaked in blood had been found; also a staff. These properties were known to have belonged to a toddy drawer. He had disappeared.1927, F. E. Penny, chapter 4, in Pulling the Strings
- To make vanish; especially, to abduct or murder for political reasons.
- The Chinese government is well-known for disappearing particularly vocal political dissidents.
- "Did they disappear him?"
"I don’t know."
"What will you do if they decide to disappear you?"1961 November 10, Joseph Heller, “Kid Sister”, in Catch-22 […], New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, →OCLC, page 416
disappear meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
disappear in Hindi
- to vanish
- मिटना miṭnā, ग़ायब होना ġāyab honā
disappear in Tamil
- மறைந்து போ, காணாமல் போ, மறைதல்
disappear in Marathi
- नाहीसे होणे
disappear in Urdu
- to vanish
- گایب ہونا gāyab honā
More languagesFewer languages
- disappear in Bengali
- অদৃশ্য হত্তয়া odriśśo hottoẏa
- disappear in Malayalam
- അപ്രത്യക്ഷമാകുക apratyakṣamākuka, അപ്രത്യക്ഷമാക്കുക apratyakṣamākkuka
- disappear in Kannada
- ಕಣುದಪ್ಪು, ಮಾಯು, ಕಣ್ಮರೆಯಾಗು, ಮರೆಯಾಗು
- disappear in Odia
- ଲିଭିବା libhibā, ପଳାଇବା paḷāibā, ଉଡ଼ିବା uṛibā, ତୁଟିବା tuṭibā
- disappear in Sanskrit
- नश्यति naśyati
- disappear in Nepali
- बिलाउनु bilāunu
- disappear in Pashto
- تروښېدل trx̌eḍǝ́l, نېهامېدل nehāmedǝ́l, غايبېدل ǧāyebedᶕl
- disappear in Arabic
- اِخْتَفَى iḵtafā, أَخْفَى ʔaḵfā
- disappear in Malay
- hilang, menghilang, lenyap
- disappear in Indonesian
- hilang, menghilang
- disappear in Persian
- ناپدید شدن nâpadid šodan, گم شدن gom šodan
- disappear in Thai
- หาย hǎai, สูญ sǔun, หายไป hǎai-bpai
- disappear in Vietnamese
- biến mất
- disappear in Myanmar
- ပျောက် pyauk, ပျောက်ကွယ် pyaukkwai, ကွယ်ပျောက် kwai-pyauk
Examples of disappear in a sentence
- My client welcomed the judge […] and they disappeared together into the Ethiopian card-room, which was filled with the assegais and exclamation point shields Mr.1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter VIII, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company...
- I had to maintain snap streaks not because my friends or I wanted to, but because letting it disappear would see that physical quantification of our friendship fall back down to zero.2017 August 12, Nick Vega, “I just lost a 159-day Snapchat streak and I couldn't be happier”, in Business Insider, archived from the...
- Now a new hunt is under way to find a grave believed to contain the remains of some of those who were “disappeared” at Colonia Dignidad.2018 May 2, Marella Oppenheim, “Excavations at Chile torture site offer new hope for relatives of disappeared”, in The Guardian, →ISSN...
- "It's such an honoring for Native people in this country, when we've been so disappeared and disregarded," Harjo says.2019 June 19, Lynn Neary, Patrick Jarenwattananon, quoting Joy Harjo, “Joy Harjo Becomes The First Native American U.S. Poet Laureate”, in...
Synonyms of disappear
Antonyms
Forms of disappear
| third-person singular present | disappears |
|---|---|
| present participle | disappearing |
| past participle | disappeared |
| past | disappeared |
Origin of disappear
From Middle English disapeeren, equivalent to dis- + appear. Displaced native Old English fordwīnan. Displaced native Old English cwincan, whose causative persists as quench (“put out (fire)”).
Words formed from disappear
Words that rhyme with disappear
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- spear
- career
- fear
- here
- steer
- appear
- cavalier
- cheer
- leer
- pioneer
- queer
- volunteer
- adhere
- beer
- chandelier
- deer
- financier
- pier
- premier
- privateer
- sheer
- veer
- vizier
- austere
- bombardier
- brigadier
- cashmere
- commandeer
- endear
- grenadier
- interfere
- mere
- mountaineer
- peer
- sear
- tear
- tier
- unclear
- arrear
- bier
- blear
- cameleer
- cashier
- chiffonier
- cohere
- fakir
- farseer
- frontier
Questions about disappear
- What does disappear mean?
- Disappear means to vanish.
- What is disappear in Hindi?
- Disappear in Hindi is मिटना (miṭnā), ग़ायब होना (ġāyab honā). See Disappear meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use disappear in a sentence?
- My client welcomed the judge […] and they disappeared together into the Ethiopian card-room, which was filled with the assegais and exclamation point shields Mr.
- What part of speech is disappear?
- Disappear is a verb.
- How do you pronounce disappear?
- Disappear is pronounced /dɪsəˈpɪə/ (UK).
- What is the past tense of disappear?
- The past tense of disappear is disappeared.
Words near disappear in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: disappear (page history and authors); disappear (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); disappear (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); disappear (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ଉଡ଼ିବା (Odia) (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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