misappearing

Verb

misappear (third-person singular simple present misappears, present participle misappearing, simple past and past participle misappeared)

1. To give a false appearance; to seem to be something other than the true form.
   • Anon like folks, that have in masks appeared, And seem as changelings, when they put away That foreign garb, in which they misappeared, So changed here to a jubilee more gay1854, C. B. Cayley (Dante Alighieri), Divine comedy: Translated in the original ternary rhyme by C. B. Cayley
2. To appear wrongly; to come into view in the wrong place or at the wrong time.
   • So Bylo scooped the phlegm in the crook of his fetid finger and flung it flush at the young maid's head, though it somehow misappeared behind her in the empty space the trio made.2014, John Klobucher, The Lore Anthology, →ISBN, page 23