disappeardis‧ap‧pear /ˌdɪsəˈpɪə $ -ˈpɪr/ ●●● S2 W2 verb [intransitive] 
The sun had disappeared behind a cloud.disappear from view/sight David watched her car until it disappeared from view. At this point the path seemed to disappear altogether (=disappear completely).2to be lost, or to become impossible to find SYN vanish: The two girls disappeared while walking home from school. My keys have disappeared again.disappear without trace British English, without a trace American English (=without any way of finding them) 75,000 soldiers simply disappeared without trace.3to stop existing: The rain forest may disappear forever.COLLOCATIONS– Meaning 2adverbssimply disappear (=used to emphasize that it is very strange)· After two weeks it seemed that the boys had simply disappeared.completely/totally disappear· My spectacles have completely disappeared again.mysteriously disappear (=in a way that no one can explain)· Several reporters in the area have mysteriously disappeared.suddenly disappear· The ship had suddenly disappeared in calm waters.phrasesdisappear without a trace (also disappear without trace British English) (=completely)· Hundreds of people disappear without trace every year.disappear into thin air (=completely)· The money he made has disappeared into thin air.THESAURUSdisappear if something disappears, you cannot see it any longer, or it does not exist any longer: · The sun slowly disappeared over the horizon.· Millions of people saw their savings disappear.· 16% of the forest cover has disappeared during the last 100 years.vanish to completely disappear, especially suddenly: · The boat vanished without trace off the coast of Australia.· All hopes of finding the boy alive have vanished.· The fields have vanished beneath a new town of skyscrapers and motorways.go away to stop existing – used about something bad such as a pain or a problem: · I wish this headache would go away.· I’m afraid the problem won’t just go away.fade away to gradually become less clear, strong, or bright, and finally disappear: · Her voice began to fade away.· His anger slowly faded away.· The last rays of the evening sun were fading away.melt away especially literary to disappear, especially gradually – used about feelings or groups of people: · The crowd began to melt away.· His initial excitement had melted away.die out to stop existing after gradually becoming more and more rare – used about a type of animal or plant, a disease, or a custom: · Wolves had died out in much of Europe.· Many of the old childhood diseases have almost died out.become extinct if a type of animal or plant becomes extinct, it stops existing: · Dinosaurs became extinct millions of years ago.· If nothing is done to save the whales, they will soon become extinct.
VERB TABLE
disappear
| Simple Form | ||
| Present | I, you, we, they | disappear |
| he, she, it | disappears | |
| Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | disappeared |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have disappeared |
| he, she, it | has disappeared | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had disappeared |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will disappear |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have disappeared |
| Continuous Form | ||
| Present | I | am disappearing |
| he, she, it | is disappearing | |
| you, we, they | are disappearing | |
| Past | I, he, she, it | was disappearing |
| you, we, they | were disappearing | |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been disappearing |
| he, she, it | has been disappearing | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been disappearing |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be disappearing |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been disappearing |
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- "The Little Mermaid" video quickly disappeared from the stores.
- 13 year-old Nicola disappeared from her home on Saturday night.
- As the economy improves, workers fears of being laid off have disappeared.
- By the time of the trial, the tape had mysteriously disappeared.
- Drugs won't make the pain disappear altogether, but they will help.
- I thought I had a copy of the notes, but they seem to have disappeared somewhere.
- Once you start drinking too heavily, the beneficial effects of alcohol disappear.
- She watched the boat sail out to sea until it disappeared over the horizon.
- Sheila's car turned the corner and disappeared from view.
- Small companies will disappear by being merged into big ones.
- The dolphin has just about disappeared from the coasts of Britain.
- The letter had mysteriously disappeared from the file overnight.
- The parents of an art student who disappeared in the middle of his exams have made an emotional plea for him to come home.
- The scars will disappear in a year or two.
- The sun disappeared behind a cloud.
- Thousands of miles of rainforest are disappearing every year.
- When I turned round, I discovered the man had disappeared with my bag.
- Where are my keys? They seem to have disappeared.
- Your grief won't disappear overnight. It takes time to get over the death of someone close to you.
- At midnight the lights disappeared and Gilbert was gone; his Newfoundland project lay in neglect for three decades.
- But the urge to indulge, never rational, never completely disappears.
- Moran stayed in bed until late that day, disappearing silently into the fields after eating.
- More of you may be working a flexible schedule that means lunch has disappeared altogether.
- Of course nobody much resents the Bucks now, since they disappeared from national prominence almost as quickly as they arrived.
- She was taken aback to realise just how far her reservations about seeing him had disappeared.
- That way they would disappear without trace.
- They ended in a pair of green bronze doors, each so high that they disappeared into the gloom.
THESAURUS
if something disappears, you cannot see it any longer, or it does not exist any longer: · The sun slowly disappeared over the horizon.· Millions of people saw their savings disappear.· 16% of the forest cover has disappeared during the last 100 years.
to completely disappear, especially suddenly: · The boat vanished without trace off the coast of Australia.· All hopes of finding the boy alive have vanished.· The fields have vanished beneath a new town of skyscrapers and motorways.
to stop existing – used about something bad such as a pain or a problem: · I wish this headache would go away.· I’m afraid the problem won’t just go away.
to gradually become less clear, strong, or bright, and finally disappear: · Her voice began to fade away.· His anger slowly faded away.· The last rays of the evening sun were fading away.
especially literary to disappear, especially gradually – used about feelings or groups of people: · The crowd began to melt away.· His initial excitement had melted away.
to stop existing after gradually becoming more and more rare – used about a type of animal or plant, a disease, or a custom: · Wolves had died out in much of Europe.· Many of the old childhood diseases have almost died out.
if a type of animal or plant becomes extinct, it stops existing: · Dinosaurs became extinct millions of years ago.· If nothing is done to save the whales, they will soon become extinct.
Longman Language Activatorto become impossible to find if someone or something disappears , you do not know where they are and cannot find them: · Where are my keys? They seem to have disappeared.· By the time of the trial, the tape had mysteriously disappeared.disappear from: · Thirteen-year-old Nicola disappeared from her home on Saturday night.disappear with something: · When I turned round, I discovered the man had disappeared with my bag.
if someone or something vanishes , they disappear and you cannot understand what has happened to them: · When she returned, her car had vanished.vanish from: · Smith vanished from Heathrow Airport in 1969 and is believed to be living in Florida.vanish into thin air (=vanish quickly, leaving no sign): · The company that supplied the missing cargo seems to have vanished into thin air.
British if an object goes missing , it is no longer in the place where it should be and may have been stolen; if a person goes missing , they cannot be found, and may be in danger: · Security was tightened up at the embassy after a number of important files went missing.· He's a strange man -- sometimes he goes missing for days and doesn't tell a soul.go missing from: · Stock has been going missing from the stock room, and we're trying to find out who is responsible.
British /without a trace American: disappear/vanish/sink without trace to disappear completely without leaving any sign of what happened: · A father and son have disappeared without trace while on a walking expedition in the mountains.· Several aircraft and ships have vanished without trace in the notorious Bermuda Triangle.
to become impossible to see if someone or something disappears , you cannot see them any more: disappear behind/under/into/over etc: · The sun disappeared behind a cloud.· She watched the boat sail out to sea until it disappeared over the horizon.disappear from view/sight: · Sheila's car turned the corner and disappeared from view.
if someone or something vanishes , you suddenly cannot see them any more - used especially when this is unexpected or strange: · The snowflakes vanished as they touched the ground.vanish into/behind/under etc: · The last of the police cars sped past and vanished into the storm.vanish from: · The plane vanished from radar screens soon after taking off.
if something or someone goes out of sight , they gradually move away from you until you cannot see them any more: · Just as she went out of sight, he remembered he hadn't given her his number.· The yacht sailed away into the distance and out of sight.· We watched his car as it rounded the bend and sped off out of sight.
if a mark or light fades away , it slowly becomes less clear or less bright until you cannot see it any more: · The light faded away and the tunnel became completely black.· The bruises will fade away over time.
if something or someone blends into the place where they are they are like it in appearance, and you cannot see them easily: · These creatures can change colour in order to blend into their surroundings.· Bruno was hoping to blend in with the crowd and escape unnoticed.
to stop being heard, felt etc if a feeling disappears , you stop feeling it: · Drugs won't make the pain disappear altogether, but they will help.· Your grief won't disappear overnight. It takes time to get over the death of someone close to you.
if a sound, a feeling, or a memory fades away , it gradually becomes less loud, less strong, or less clear, until you cannot hear, feel, or remember it any longer: · As the last notes of the song faded away, the audience began to applaud.· For the first two years after the divorce, he was permanently angry, but then the anger faded away.· The memory of the attack will fade away in time.
if something, especially the effect of something, wears off , it gradually disappears: · The pain got worse as the anaesthetic wore off.· The effects of child abuse never wear off.· Once the initial shock has worn off you'll realize that things aren't as bad as you first thought.
if an unpleasant feeling, situation etc goes away , it disappears, especially when you have been trying to get rid of it for a long time: · I wish I could make this headache go away.· His shyness soon went away when he started school.
if a sound dies away , it gradually becomes less loud and less clear until you cannot hear it any longer: · The sound of his footsteps grew fainter and eventually died away.· As the rhythm of the music died away, screams could be heard in the distance.
to stop existing if something disappears , it stops existing, and cannot be seen any more: · Thousands of square miles of rainforest are disappearing each year.· The dolphin has just about disappeared from the coasts of Britain.· Once you start drinking too heavily, the beneficial effects of alcohol disappear.
to stop existing, especially because of a sudden or quick process: · All hopes of finding the boy alive have vanished.· The Shatin rice fields have long vanished beneath a new town of skyscrapers and motorways.vanish without a trace (=so that nothing remains): · Like so many dance crazes, the "moonwalk' was popular for a while in the clubs, then vanished without a trace.
if a type of animal or plant becomes extinct , all the animals or plants of that type die, so that the type does not exist any more: · Dinosaurs became extinct millions of years ago.· If nothing is done to save the whales now, the species will soon become extinct.
when all the animals or plants of a particular type die, so that the type no longer exists: · The Scarlet Macaw is in imminent danger of extinction.face/be threatened with extinction (=likely to soon become extinct): · Out of 329 parrot species, 30 now face extinction.· Large numbers of rare and beautiful Alpine plants are threatened with extinction. save something from extinction: · attempts to save the elephant from extinction
to gradually become rarer and then stop existing - use this about a type of animal or plant, a disease, or a custom: · Diseases such as leprosy and polio have almost completely died out.· The country is changing very quickly and many of the old traditions are dying out.· The nearest common ancestor of man and the modern great apes died out about 30 million years ago.
to stop existing: · The town which Joyce wrote about has long since ceased to exist.· As of 1991, the Russian Communist Party effectively ceased to exist.
when something no longer exists · Many of the old birth and death records do not exist any more.· The system that guaranteed lifetime employment no longer exists.· The ideal is to build a society in which racism no longer exists.
if a type of animal is extinct , none of them are alive anymore: · The white rhino is now almost extinct.· There are several theories as to why the dinosaurs became extinct.· The valley contains fossils of many extinct species.
if something such as a type of plant or animal dies out , there are fewer and fewer of them until finally there are none left: · Many of the old village traditions are dying out.· Unless we do something now, hundreds of plant and animal species will die out.
if something disappears , it stops existing and can no longer be seen or felt: · Thousands of miles of rainforest are disappearing every year.· As the economy improves, workers' fears of being laid off have disappeared.
someone or something that you cannot find a missing object is lost and may have been stolen; a missing person cannot be found and may be in danger: · She's been missing for three days now, and we're very worried.· The painting, which has been missing for almost half a century, only turned up when the owner of the house died.missing from: · Police are 'very concerned' for the safety of a teenager who's been missing from home for three days. · Two pages were missing from my copy of the report.go missing (from) British (=become lost or be stolen): · A small sum of money went missing from the office last night.report somebody/something missing (from) (=tell someone in authority that someone or something is lost or stolen): · The man had reported his girlfriend missing three days after she disappeared.
if something is lost , no-one knows where it is: · I've looked everywhere for the car keys. I think they must be lost.· Divers are searching for the plane's lost flight recorder.get lost: · You haven't gotten my letter yet? It must have gotten lost in the mail.
if something or someone disappears , they cannot be found and you think they may have been stolen or may be in danger: · I thought I had a copy of the notes, but they seem to have disappeared somewhere.· The parents of an art student who disappeared in the middle of his exams have made an emotional plea for him to come home.disappear from: · The letter had mysteriously disappeared from the file overnight.
if someone or something is nowhere to be seen or nowhere to be found , you have looked everywhere for them but still cannot find them: · Our tour guide was nowhere to be seen, so we set off to explore the city alone.· She'd looked everywhere for her glasses, but they were nowhere to be found.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY Meaning 2adverbs Access to the Internet is fast becoming a necessity.
(=used to emphasize that it is very strange)· After two weeks it seemed that the boys had simply disappeared.
· My spectacles have completely disappeared again.
(=in a way that no one can explain)· Several reporters in the area have mysteriously disappeared.
· The ship had suddenly disappeared in calm waters.
phrases (also disappear without trace British English) (=completely)· Hundreds of people disappear without trace every year.
(=completely)· The money he made has disappeared into thin air.
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES· We watched the two boys disappear around the corner.
(=gradually stops being done)· Sometimes the streets are decorated with flower petals, although this custom is dying out.
Access to the Internet is fast becoming a necessity. (=stop being seen because of the mist)· He passed me on the trail and disappeared into the mist.
· The symptoms should disappear after a few days.
(=disappear completely, without leaving any sign of what happened) The plane vanished without a trace.
The plane vanished without a trace.· She disappeared from view around the corner.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADVERB· Gannets and fulmars appeared out of the mist, flew alongside for a few minutes and disappeared again.· Then finally the Friendship straightened out and again disappeared, this time for good, heading northeast.· Dennison crossed the road and disappeared again.· At that time another course of radiation was given and they again disappeared.· For a hundred years prior to 1924 the lake was present continually, and has appeared and disappeared again several times since.· By the end of the summer, however, Alvin was ready to disappear again.· Each must constantly be presented anew, only to disappear again.· She knew the offers would disappear again the very moment she tried to take them up.
· From one fairly typical grammar school, studied by Colin Lacey, the fee-payers had almost disappeared as early as 1925.· Flying, of course, has reduced and humanized this vastness, making distances almost disappear.· By the 1770s the winding-sheet had almost disappeared, to be replaced by coffin sheets.· It can be quite a craze in a neighbourhood for a while and then almost disappear.· My tiredness had now almost disappeared as I made my way along the drive of Brigade H.Q and out into the village.· A few patches of such use can still be seen today, especially on small islands, but the practice has almost disappeared.· Although this usage has almost disappeared, it is still visible in pigeon fanciers.· Meaning wrapped up in waffle Meaning may be wrapped in so many layers of words or unnecessary phrases that it almost disappears.
· Repeated attempts to provoke an attack may cause the symptoms to disappear altogether.· More of you may be working a flexible schedule that means lunch has disappeared altogether.· Become a part of your local scene and it may well disappear altogether, except when your activities arouse friendly interest.· Perhaps in time, if washed by tears, they will become indistinct and a few will disappear altogether.· If you look too hard it disappears altogether into a kind of wistful, disappointed light in the night sky.· And as that sense of independence grew, so the need I felt to control my weight subsided and finally disappeared altogether.· He seems to have bloody well disappeared altogether.· But this collaboration of culture and nature also meant that females were on the verge of disappearing altogether.
· This gradually lessened through the spring and disappeared completely in the summer.· But the urge to indulge, never rational, never completely disappears.· In fact he was in danger of disappearing completely.· Before long, the explosive story is thoroughly media-wrenched, until the line between reality and sensational fantasy completely disappears.· Beyond perhaps a specialist 12-inch dance market, it will eventually disappear completely.· Some meteor showers last just one or two nights, to disappear completely until the same two nights the next year.· And if to is completely meaningless when used with the infinitive, why isn't it tending to disappear completely?· The oats have almost completely disappeared into the bread.
· Ed says as he leaves the living room and disappears down a hall.· They picked up their skis and disappeared down the Vallée Blanche.· They disappeared down one of the side streets.· The two cars swing out of the palace gates, and disappear down the avenue.· Well worth it ... She turned to watch him disappear down the ladder.· He heard a burst of gunfire and saw a car disappearing down the Glen Road.· Pleased, they trailed outside, disappeared down the concrete road.
· But if we can achieve that, then their argument on the urgency for entry entirely disappears.· About 1629, scarcely a quarter-century after the first accounts of it, the cahow disappeared entirely.· Such taboos have not entirely disappeared today.· The small lead to which Samuel had previously clung had entirely disappeared.· He had disappeared entirely, leaving me to wonder what the hell he was playing at.· Robertsbridge, the great Cistercian house, disappeared entirely, torn down by the local people.· They lose much of their natural paranoia about predators, but is never disappears entirely.· This is not to say that the age of the Great Leader has entirely disappeared.
· This familiarity, this friendliness of science is fast disappearing under the banner of standardisation.· These historic opportunities are fast disappearing for our community.· All have some money, though in the case of Glamorgan it is disappearing fast.· Even the open space that remains in Cairo is fast disappearing.· Hold on to the farmland fast disappearing under subdivisions.· Even those who oppose choice in principle are fast disappearing.· They may be rusty, old and a little slow, but at tommorrow's auction these machines are expected to disappear fast.· It's getting very lonely in the dusk and the river is fast disappearing, massive mudflats and a Lego landscape.
· You would be so shocked and so disgusted that whatever faint chance of your return is left would disappear forever.· Some stories ready to go disappeared forever.· You put what I say in your mind and wrap it up and it disappears forever.· Islands that can sink or disappear forever.· Worse, however, is the situation regarding the back catalogue: once initial stock are exhausted the titles frequently disappear forever.· The days of the dainty cup and saucer seem to have disappeared forever.
· A figure in black was just disappearing into the wood.· My statement to Molto has just disappeared from this case.· He's just disappeared, gone, vanished.· Great September stories faded and Mike Piazza just disappeared, his swing in tatters.· Loose powder is the first choice of makeup artists because it's lighter than pressed and just disappears into your skin.· Over the next few weeks the several squads of tourists in evidence on his arrival just disappeared.· They wish the inner city, which is three-quarters black, would just disappear.
· It is in this way that the apparent divide between literate and non-literate cultures simply disappears.· In that case, the manipulated emotion simply disappears.· Would Johnny simply disappear before they could reach the bed?· I could simply disappear to the center of Cleveland or Detroit, become somebody different, and never see my son again.· They hadn't disappeared simply because she had chosen not to reveal them to the world.· National countercyclical Keynesian stimulus policies have simply disappeared.· Aunt Elisaveta had simply disappeared months earlier.· Though Taylor was gone by then, Midvale had not simply disappeared into his past.
· The previous mayor, Sanyu Ishii, disappeared suddenly after resigning in mid-June because of mounting gambling debts.· There are an estimated 30 million species of insects, and if they were to suddenly disappear so would we.· The puddle suddenly disappears and I look over at Marie.· In 1926, mystery writer Agatha Christie suddenly disappeared without a trace from her native Devon.· That ship had suddenly disappeared in placid waters without trace.· It is claimed that he suddenly disappears when approached.· When finally, remaining wartime controls were abolished these influences did not suddenly disappear.· And once they have spotted you they suddenly disappear among rocks or melt into the vegetation.
· He then disappeared to buy a round of teas from the canteen.· Paul; from there, apparently, they went on to South Dakota, then disappeared.· Much to the consternation of the operators, Humphrey's shabby figure would appear and then disappear into high-speed machinery.· The neurological symptoms then disappear by midmorning.· The circle then disappears wholly, and a glowing red ring of light within marks out the circle of the portal.· Next, the great herds of buffalo dwindled, then disappeared, as they were slaughtered for their hides.· The Love Talker preys upon unaccompanied young women, such as shepherdesses or milkmaids, seduces them and then disappears.· Muir believed in the slow work of glaciers, those powerful carving architects that create and then disappear.
· He observed how institutional forms of control by society had virtually disappeared.· Mulchers cut and recut the grass clippings so that they virtually disappear within the lawn.· Relief-line, and indeed any use of undiluted black, virtually disappears.· In several cases, a species has virtually disappeared in a few years.· Support Forest had virtually disappeared as an attacking force, with the outnumbered Clough receiving little support from midfield.· During a 45-day storm in the winter of 1968-69, the Mount Disney and Mount Lincoln chair lifts virtually disappeared.· For some years now, the amateur market has been dominated by one-piece machines and separates have virtually disappeared from the scene.· The gap between the knowledge of. the skilled worker and bourgeois technician has virtually disappeared or been greatly reduced.
NOUN· Then they disappeared through the door.· Amy Winship took one look at him and disappeared quietly through the door, and Ben Bradshaw winced.· The old man disappeared out the door, a zombie come and gone.· We disappear through a locked door in the wall.· He followed Peter Stillman with his eyes until the young man disappeared through the door.
· A home together is a dream that shattered when his job disappeared.· In fact, 400 more jobs disappeared during the second quarter.· When banking jobs disappear, tax dollars go with them.· Nearly 400, 000 jobs disappeared in major layoffs announced within the past year.· Prices are spiralling, the economy is contracting and jobs are disappearing even faster than the emigrants are leaving.· It is estimated that for each defense job lost, nearly one additional job disappears.· Nearly 19,000 jobs disappeared last year, 6,000 of them from management.· Banking is another area where jobs are disappearing.
· It disappeared from sight behind the slope of the hill.· It disappears out of sight very suddenly.· So, since he is disappearing from sight, he has dyed his hair black, eyebrows, too.· Within seconds of the Wheel disappearing from sight the red glow was extinguished.· The vagrants from the casual ward had disappeared at the sight of the policeman; the street was empty.· He sat well, she thought, as she watched him turn round the stable wall and disappear out of sight.· In a few seconds, he had disappeared from sight.· As they disappeared from sight, a bout of shivering swept over Jack.
· Without radio play, a record can disappear without trace.· In 1926, mystery writer Agatha Christie suddenly disappeared without a trace from her native Devon.· The Kershaw Worm had disappeared without a trace.· Two months later, when the researchers went back to look for the megaplume, it had disappeared without a trace.· That way they would disappear without trace.· Hundreds of people disappeared without trace every year.· Just about everyone hoped they would disappear without trace when that tide ebbed and frenetic buying and selling ground to a halt.· It is a bit more surprising, however, when that dealer disappears without a trace.
· Before afternoon, Treasure Island had disappeared from view, and I had never felt happier to leave a place behind.· After twenty feet or so I turned to see his figure disappear from view.· Muttering incomprehensibly, he made for some bushes where he disappeared from Emily's view.· Then it struck the raft amidships and disappeared from view for a moment.· He watched them disappear from his view, his father still waddling along with that bloody basket.· Grover leaned back, disappearing from view as the gay yellow cab puttered away, its muffler clattering forlornly after it.· The stream is fascinating, disappearing from view from time to time, to re-emerge from beneath road or path in an ever delightful manner.· To do this she must have a concept that objects still exist after they disappear from view.
VERB· We saw the moon appear and disappear, veiled by clouds.· They appeared and disappeared in the mist and were too far away to have seen us.· Quantum mechanics depicts space as a seething foam of uncertainty, with unimaginably short-lived elementary particles appearing and disappear ing.· Any spots showed themselves early, and they did not enlarge, contract, appear anew, or disappear.· For a hundred years prior to 1924 the lake was present continually, and has appeared and disappeared again several times since.· My knees appeared and disappeared in the mists rising from the tub.· Much to the consternation of the operators, Humphrey's shabby figure would appear and then disappear into high-speed machinery.· But informal, ad hoc networks may then appear and disappear as the net is rearranged.
· At one point the bag rose so high it seemed to disappear into the night.· He swung his legs over the windowsill and for an instant his torso seemed to disappear into the darkness inside.· This possible restraint seems to have disappeared.· Boundaries and standards seem to be disappearing.· You can tell these mysterious trails were not made yesterday, because of the way they seem to disappear into thin air.· Why do we need an All- Star Game now, when all the stars seem to be disappearing?· The columbines seemed to have disappeared, and the delphiniums weren't ready yet.· I looked down; the hooves seemed to be disappearing into a little mist which rose up everywhere around us.
· She watched them disappear into one of the corridors that radiated from the chamber.· I watched the procession disappear down the stairs.· He watched them disappear from his view, his father still waddling along with that bloody basket.· Valda watches him until he disappears into the dark woods behind the house.· Well worth it ... She turned to watch him disappear down the ladder.· It would be wonderful to rub some lotion on your thighs and watch your fat disappear.· Marian leaned over the parapet; the rain, which still streamed down, was forgotten as she watched him rapidly disappear.· As he watched, the engine disappeared into the earth.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES► do a disappearing/vanishing act► disappear/vanish from/off the face of the earth
- Then the plane vanished from sight on the radar screen.
- Here the linguistic cocoon is spun to such complexity that the characters and narrative structure sometimes vanish from sight.
- It disappeared from sight behind the slope of the hill.
- She vanished from sight, but Hippolytus, too, was gone.
- So, since he is disappearing from sight, he has dyed his hair black, eyebrows, too.
- The rest of us heard a thin squeak, and started calling for her as she had vanished from sight.
- The shore had vanished from sight.
- Within a few seconds it flew on again, vanishing from sight and hearing.
- Within seconds of the Wheel disappearing from sight the red glow was extinguished.
- As happened during and after the first war of independence, the money has disappeared into thin air.
- It was almost as if he'd vanished into thin air.
- Maybe each and every one of them had vanished into thin air.
- The Cheshire cat is an odd character and he causes confusion when he literally disappears into thin air.
- The money which has suddenly and mysteriously become available simply vanishes into thin air as Ruggiero Miletti magically reappears.
- Victor and his kidnappers had disappeared into thin air.
- Yet he seemed to disappear into thin air.
- You can tell these mysterious trails were not made yesterday, because of the way they seem to disappear into thin air.
WORD FAMILYnounappearance ≠ disappearancereappearanceverbappear ≠ disappearreappear
1to become impossible to see any longer SYN vanish OPP appeardisappear behind/under/into etc The sun had disappeared behind a cloud.disappear from view/sight David watched her car until it disappeared from view. At this point the path seemed to disappear altogether (=disappear completely).2to be lost, or to become impossible to find SYN vanish: The two girls disappeared while walking home from school. My keys have disappeared again.disappear without trace British English, without a trace American English (=without any way of finding them) 75,000 soldiers simply disappeared without trace.3to stop existing: The rain forest may disappear forever.COLLOCATIONS– Meaning 2adverbssimply disappear (=used to emphasize that it is very strange)· After two weeks it seemed that the boys had simply disappeared.completely/totally disappear· My spectacles have completely disappeared again.mysteriously disappear (=in a way that no one can explain)· Several reporters in the area have mysteriously disappeared.suddenly disappear· The ship had suddenly disappeared in calm waters.phrasesdisappear without a trace (also disappear without trace British English) (=completely)· Hundreds of people disappear without trace every year.disappear into thin air (=completely)· The money he made has disappeared into thin air.THESAURUSdisappear if something disappears, you cannot see it any longer, or it does not exist any longer: · The sun slowly disappeared over the horizon.· Millions of people saw their savings disappear.· 16% of the forest cover has disappeared during the last 100 years.vanish to completely disappear, especially suddenly: · The boat vanished without trace off the coast of Australia.· All hopes of finding the boy alive have vanished.· The fields have vanished beneath a new town of skyscrapers and motorways.go away to stop existing – used about something bad such as a pain or a problem: · I wish this headache would go away.· I’m afraid the problem won’t just go away.fade away to gradually become less clear, strong, or bright, and finally disappear: · Her voice began to fade away.· His anger slowly faded away.· The last rays of the evening sun were fading away.melt away especially literary to disappear, especially gradually – used about feelings or groups of people: · The crowd began to melt away.· His initial excitement had melted away.die out to stop existing after gradually becoming more and more rare – used about a type of animal or plant, a disease, or a custom: · Wolves had died out in much of Europe.· Many of the old childhood diseases have almost died out.become extinct if a type of animal or plant becomes extinct, it stops existing: · Dinosaurs became extinct millions of years ago.· If nothing is done to save the whales, they will soon become extinct.