DISAPPEAR


Meaning of DISAPPEAR in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ dɪsəpɪə(r) ]

( disappears, disappearing, disappeared)

Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.

1.

If you say that someone or something disappears , you mean that you can no longer see them, usually because you or they have changed position.

The black car drove away from them and disappeared...

Clive disappeared into a room by himself...

= vanish

VERB : V , V prep

2.

If someone or something disappears , they go away or are taken away somewhere where nobody can find them.

...a Japanese woman who disappeared thirteen years ago...

VERB : V

3.

If something disappears , it stops existing or happening.

The immediate security threat has disappeared.

VERB : V

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