disappear
disappeared; disappearing; disappears
When something disappears, it's gone. To disappear is to vanish, evaporate, or just fade away.
The word disappear is made up of dis, meaning "do the opposite of" and appear. So to disappear is to do the opposite of appear. Magicians are experts at making things disappear: one minute the rabbit is here, and the next, it's gone! When you lose something, like one of a pair of socks, you could say it disappeared. Snow disappears as it melts; boiling water disappears as it evaporates. Anything that goes away without leaving a trace has disappeared.
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become invisible or unnoticeable
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types:
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dematerialise, dematerialize
become immaterial; disappear
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clear, dissipate
go away or disappear
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bob under
disappear suddenly, as if under the surface of a body of water
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dematerialise, dematerialize
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become less intense and fade away gradually
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get lost, as without warning or explanation“He disappeared without a trace”
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Antonyms:
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appear
come into sight or view
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types:
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- hide 10 types...
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fall away, fall off
diminish in size or intensity
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fall
go as if by falling
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die
disappear or come to an end
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go
be abolished or discarded
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absent, remove
go away or leave
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blow over, evanesce, fade, fleet, pass, pass off
disappear gradually
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fade, wither
lose freshness, vigor, or vitality
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skip town, take a powder
disappear without notifying anyone (idiom)
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die off, die out
become extinct
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desorb
go away from the surface to which (a substance) is adsorbed
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appear
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cease to exist
Vocabulary lists containing disappear
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