Definition of "disappear"

disappear

/dɪsəˈpɪə/

verb
third-person singular simple present disappears, present participle disappearing, simple past and past participle disappeared
1. (intransitive) To vanish.
2. (intransitive) To go missing; to become a missing person.
3. (intransitive) To go away; to become lost.
  Quotations
  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 at the sawmill at Beaverton.
  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.
  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
4. (transitive, often euphemistic) To make vanish; especially, to abduct or murder for political reasons.
  Quotations
  "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, page 416
  "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 npr‎
  The book centres on Eilish Stack, a scientist, mother of four and wife to a teacher trade unionist who has been disappeared by the secret police.
  2023 December 2, Frederick Studemann, “Civilisation is so easily lost”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 11

Definition of "disappear"

disappear

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