disappearing

Verb

disappear (third-person singular simple present disappears, present participle disappearing, simple past and past participle disappeared)

1. (intransitive) To vanish.

   Synonyms:

   dematerialize, vanish, perish, dissolve, walk

   Antonyms:

   appear

2. (intransitive) 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.
3. (intransitive) 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
4. (euphemistic, often, transitive) To make vanish; especially, to abduct or murder for political reasons.
   • The Chinese government is well-known for disappearing particularly vocal political dissidents.