DISAPPEAR


Meaning of DISAPPEAR in English

verb

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a custom dies out/disappears (= gradually stops being done )

Sometimes the streets are decorated with flower petals, although this custom is dying out.

disappear around a corner

We watched the two boys disappear around the corner.

disappear from view

She disappeared from view around the corner.

disappear/vanish into the mist (= stop being seen because of the mist )

He passed me on the trail and disappeared into the mist.

disappear/vanish/sink without (a) trace (= disappear completely, without leaving any sign of what happened )

The plane vanished without a trace.

fast becoming/disappearing/approaching etc

Access to the Internet is fast becoming a necessity.

symptoms disappear

The symptoms should disappear after a few days.

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADVERB

again

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.

almost

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 .

altogether

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 .

completely

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.

down

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.

entirely

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 .

fast

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.

for ever

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 .

just

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 .

simply

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.

suddenly

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.

then

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 .

virtually

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

door

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 .

job

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 .

sight

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.

trace

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 .

view

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

appear

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.

seem

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.

watch

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

disappear/vanish from sight

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.

disappear/vanish from/off the face of the earth

disappear/vanish into thin air

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.

do a disappearing/vanishing act

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

"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.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

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.

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