disappearv.

c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) ii. l. 2790 (MED) Sodeynly..Þei disapered.

a1450 (?c1421) J. Lydgate Siege Thebes (Arun.) (1911) l. 4032 (MED) This old bisshop..Disaperyd and no mor was seyne.

1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 517/1 The vysion disapered incontynent.

1605 Z. Jones tr. P. le Loyer Treat. Specters vii. f. 64^v Those night-fiers, which..go roling continually till they come neere some river or pond, in the which they do suddaintly disappeare and vanish away.

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost viii. 478 She disappeerd, and left me dark, I wak'd To find her, or for ever to deplore Her loss. View more context for this quotation

1690 J. Locke Ess. Humane Understanding ii. x. 66 The Pictures drawn in our Minds, are laid in fading Colours; and if not sometimes refreshed, vanish and disappear.

1702 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion I. i. 34 There appear'd to him on the side of his bed, a man... After this discourse he disappear'd.

1726 W. R. Chetwood Voy. & Adventures Capt. R. Boyle 271 The Cloud upon my Wife's Face began to disappear by degrees.

1805 E. Dayes Wks. 299 An heterogeneal color, orange, for instance..viewed through a prism, will disappear, being resolved into the two homogeneal colors..red and yellow.

1886 Sci. Amer. 9 Jan. 16/2 A flash-light, that is to say, one which can be made to glow or disappear at pleasure.

1910 Cosmopolitan Mag. Mar. 462/2 At that instant the electric bulbs burst into light, and the ghost disappeared entirely.

2006 Guardian 19 June ii. 3/3 Darkened spots on the face and body, usually on the forehead and across the nose, which may not disappear after pregnancy.

1610 G. Fletcher Christs Victorie 74 Pale Cynthia, neere her brothers tent, Soone disappeares in the white firmament, And giues him back the beames, before wear his.

1665 S. Danforth Astron. Descr. of Late Comet 13 It's basis together with the angle of the optick Cone was diminished, until at last it disappeared and vanished out of sight.

1763 R. Brookes Nat. Hist. Birds II. xxxiv. 320 There are two rings on the neck and breast..of a black colour. The foremost runs quite round, but that behind partly disappears at the top.

1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. ix. 63 A moraine..disappearing at the summit of the cascade.

1907 Brit. Jrnl. Photogr. 8 Feb. 95/2 Make the shadow dark around the shoulders in such a portrait, and gradually disappearing to a point above the head.

2009 C. Johnson Dark Horse 205 The only other road curled off to the right and disappeared into the distance.

1665 T. Herbert Some Years Trav. (new ed.) 408 When the Sun is deprest and disappearing.

1790 Public Advertiser 27 July As some young men were bathing in the pond..one of them suddenly disappeared under the water.

1837 E. Howard Old Commodore I. iv. 111 Richard Stubbs..disappeared down the Jacob's ladder.

1881 C. E. L. Riddell Senior Partner xxii The boy disappeared into the retirement of the back room.

1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xv. [Circe] 413 He disappears into Olhousen's, the pork butcher's.

1974 Observer 27 Jan. (Review section) 26/4 He disappeared around the corner to where his Alpine was parked.

2016 Metro 12 Jan. (London ed.) (Property section) 6/4 Pocket doors that disappear into the wall allowing space to be opened up.

1602 tr. J. Teixeira True Hist. Don Sebastian sig. C2^v That a time shall come, wherein a King..shall disappeare for a time; and that after that..the verie selfe same King, whom all the world holdeth for dead, shall rise againe.

1659 H. Hammond Paraphr. & Annot. New Test. (ed. 2) 35/2 Not that they are destroyed or gone, but that they disappeare for one day.

1769 Boston Weekly News-let. 7 Sept. 2/2 A mulatto named Dick, formerly a slave to Mr. d'Harriette, but afterwards manumised,..has disappeared.

1785 W. Cowper Task iii. 814 As duly as the swallows disappear.

1840 W. G. Simms Border Beagles II. vii. 125 When Jones returned to his comrades..the scene had undergone a change. The cards had disappeared—fires were lighted anew.

1887 Overland Monthly Apr. 371/2 He one day suddenly disappeared and could not be traced.

1920 N.Y. Times 14 Sept. 17/5 In Grodno, he says, hundreds of Jews whom the Poles arrested have disappeared.

1942 E. Waugh Put out More Flags (1943) i. 20 It was a weary journey;..the restaurant car had disappeared during the night at Avignon.

1969 C. Belfrage tr. E. Galeano Guatemala 68 There are never any witnesses of a killing... The families of many who disappear prefer not to take the matter to the authorities.

2015 N.Y. Mag. 20 Apr. 77/1 The agnolotti had disappeared, replaced by small, equally tasty tortellini.

1742 J. Fraser Hist. Nadir Shah 186 Those who raised the commotion disappeard in an Instant, and left the innocent shopkeepers..to be butchered by the inraged Kuzzlebash.

1836 C. Crowninshield Diary 26 May (1956) 252 The father disappeared just before tea to drink a bottle of Rhine in a Wirtshaus.

1888 Mrs. H. Ward Robert Elsmere I. i. v. 105 Almost every year he disappeared to France.

1940 J. Buchan Memory Hold-the-Door iv. 97 I would disappear early on the Sunday morning and return late at night.

2002 Z. Radcliffe London Irish x. 142 Roisin remembered the old friends in Cushendun who used to disappear off to Boston for whole summers to find work.

1793 Louisa Mathews I. vii. 69 They..sallied forth to the office in Bow Street; where the purse which old Mathews had yielded on demand was produced, but the money had disappeared.

1798 W. Hunter Trav. through France, Turkey & Hungary to Vienna (ed. 2) II. xvii. 94 Her greatest failing was a strong propensity to thieving;..my cloak..was not to be found. My hat also disappeared about the same time.

1809 Westm. Jrnl. 15–22 Apr. 1/5 A piece of muslin squares, and several other articles, had disappeared.

1880 Standard 30 Aug. 3/6 She at once commenced to plunder the house systematically, table-cloths, linen, and other things disappearing from time to time.

1931 Life 21 Aug. 32/1 (advt.) A crowd jostles at the gate. A wallet disappears. No use to cry out. The thief is gone.

1968 Guardian 30 Nov. 13/8 My wedding ring disappeared from my finger and was dug up a year later impaled on the tine of a garden fork.

2000 C. Kelly in J. Adams et al. Girls' Night In 161 When I went looking for it the next morning, the cardigan had disappeared from my drawer.

1897 Chem. News 19 Mar. 143 We progressively disappear the faces of the dodecahedron.

1949 Amer. Speech 24 41 The magician may speak of disappearing or vanishing a card.

1990 World Policy Jrnl. 7 763 Doing nothing about the problems will not ‘disappear’ them.

2015 Pakistan Law Reporter (Nexis) 3 Apr. In order to disappear the evidence her body was thrown under the bridge.

1965 Berkshire Eagle (Pittsfield, Mass.) 16 Oct. 2/6 One day, without explanation, he ‘was disappeared’ to Czechoslovakia, say reliable Cuban sources.

1987 E. Leonard Bandits iii. 37 Our two Nicaraguan doctors were disappeared, one right after the other.

1990 Times 8 Aug. 17/1 Armed men arrive in a village and ‘disappear’ any activists, several of whom have later been found floating in nearby rivers.

2006 L. A. Horvitz & C. Catherwood Encycl. War Crimes 11/1 It is estimated that some 7,000 people have been disappeared by security forces.