verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a custom dies out/disappears (= gradually stops being done )
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Sometimes the streets are decorated with flower petals, although this custom is dying out.
disappear around a corner
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We watched the two boys disappear around the corner.
disappear from view
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She disappeared from view around the corner.
disappear/vanish into the mist (= stop being seen because of the mist )
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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 )
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The plane vanished without a trace.
fast becoming/disappearing/approaching etc
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Access to the Internet is fast becoming a necessity.
symptoms disappear
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The symptoms should disappear after a few days.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
again
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Gannets and fulmars appeared out of the mist, flew alongside for a few minutes and disappeared again .
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Then finally the Friendship straightened out and again disappeared , this time for good, heading northeast.
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Dennison crossed the road and disappeared again .
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At that time another course of radiation was given and they again disappeared .
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For a hundred years prior to 1924 the lake was present continually, and has appeared and disappeared again several times since.
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By the end of the summer, however, Alvin was ready to disappear again .
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Each must constantly be presented anew, only to disappear again .
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She knew the offers would disappear again the very moment she tried to take them up.
almost
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From one fairly typical grammar school, studied by Colin Lacey, the fee-payers had almost disappeared as early as 1925.
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Flying, of course, has reduced and humanized this vastness, making distances almost disappear .
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By the 1770s the winding-sheet had almost disappeared , to be replaced by coffin sheets.
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It can be quite a craze in a neighbourhood for a while and then almost disappear .
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My tiredness had now almost disappeared as I made my way along the drive of Brigade H.Q and out into the village.
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A few patches of such use can still be seen today, especially on small islands, but the practice has almost disappeared .
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Although this usage has almost disappeared , it is still visible in pigeon fanciers.
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Meaning wrapped up in waffle Meaning may be wrapped in so many layers of words or unnecessary phrases that it almost disappears .
altogether
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Repeated attempts to provoke an attack may cause the symptoms to disappear altogether .
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More of you may be working a flexible schedule that means lunch has disappeared altogether .
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Become a part of your local scene and it may well disappear altogether , except when your activities arouse friendly interest.
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Perhaps in time, if washed by tears, they will become indistinct and a few will disappear altogether .
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If you look too hard it disappears altogether into a kind of wistful, disappointed light in the night sky.
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And as that sense of independence grew, so the need I felt to control my weight subsided and finally disappeared altogether .
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He seems to have bloody well disappeared altogether .
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But this collaboration of culture and nature also meant that females were on the verge of disappearing altogether .
completely
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This gradually lessened through the spring and disappeared completely in the summer.
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But the urge to indulge, never rational, never completely disappears .
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In fact he was in danger of disappearing completely .
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Before long, the explosive story is thoroughly media-wrenched, until the line between reality and sensational fantasy completely disappears .
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Beyond perhaps a specialist 12-inch dance market, it will eventually disappear completely .
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Some meteor showers last just one or two nights, to disappear completely until the same two nights the next year.
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And if to is completely meaningless when used with the infinitive, why isn't it tending to disappear completely?
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The oats have almost completely disappeared into the bread.
down
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Ed says as he leaves the living room and disappears down a hall.
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They picked up their skis and disappeared down the Vallée Blanche.
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They disappeared down one of the side streets.
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The two cars swing out of the palace gates, and disappear down the avenue.
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Well worth it ... She turned to watch him disappear down the ladder.
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He heard a burst of gunfire and saw a car disappearing down the Glen Road.
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Pleased, they trailed outside, disappeared down the concrete road.
entirely
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But if we can achieve that, then their argument on the urgency for entry entirely disappears .
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About 1629, scarcely a quarter-century after the first accounts of it, the cahow disappeared entirely .
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Such taboos have not entirely disappeared today.
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The small lead to which Samuel had previously clung had entirely disappeared .
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He had disappeared entirely , leaving me to wonder what the hell he was playing at.
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Robertsbridge, the great Cistercian house, disappeared entirely , torn down by the local people.
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They lose much of their natural paranoia about predators, but is never disappears entirely .
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This is not to say that the age of the Great Leader has entirely disappeared .
fast
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This familiarity, this friendliness of science is fast disappearing under the banner of standardisation.
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These historic opportunities are fast disappearing for our community.
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All have some money, though in the case of Glamorgan it is disappearing fast .
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Even the open space that remains in Cairo is fast disappearing .
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Hold on to the farmland fast disappearing under subdivisions.
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Even those who oppose choice in principle are fast disappearing .
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They may be rusty, old and a little slow, but at tommorrow's auction these machines are expected to disappear fast .
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It's getting very lonely in the dusk and the river is fast disappearing , massive mudflats and a Lego landscape.
for ever
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You would be so shocked and so disgusted that whatever faint chance of your return is left would disappear forever .
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Some stories ready to go disappeared forever .
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You put what I say in your mind and wrap it up and it disappears forever .
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Islands that can sink or disappear forever .
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Worse, however, is the situation regarding the back catalogue: once initial stock are exhausted the titles frequently disappear forever .
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The days of the dainty cup and saucer seem to have disappeared forever .
just
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A figure in black was just disappearing into the wood.
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My statement to Molto has just disappeared from this case.
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He's just disappeared , gone, vanished.
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Great September stories faded and Mike Piazza just disappeared , his swing in tatters.
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Loose powder is the first choice of makeup artists because it's lighter than pressed and just disappears into your skin.
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Over the next few weeks the several squads of tourists in evidence on his arrival just disappeared .
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They wish the inner city, which is three-quarters black, would just disappear .
simply
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It is in this way that the apparent divide between literate and non-literate cultures simply disappears .
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In that case, the manipulated emotion simply disappears .
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Would Johnny simply disappear before they could reach the bed?
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I could simply disappear to the center of Cleveland or Detroit, become somebody different, and never see my son again.
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They hadn't disappeared simply because she had chosen not to reveal them to the world.
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National countercyclical Keynesian stimulus policies have simply disappeared .
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Aunt Elisaveta had simply disappeared months earlier.
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Though Taylor was gone by then, Midvale had not simply disappeared into his past.
suddenly
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The previous mayor, Sanyu Ishii, disappeared suddenly after resigning in mid-June because of mounting gambling debts.
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There are an estimated 30 million species of insects, and if they were to suddenly disappear so would we.
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The puddle suddenly disappears and I look over at Marie.
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In 1926, mystery writer Agatha Christie suddenly disappeared without a trace from her native Devon.
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That ship had suddenly disappeared in placid waters without trace.
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It is claimed that he suddenly disappears when approached.
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When finally, remaining wartime controls were abolished these influences did not suddenly disappear .
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And once they have spotted you they suddenly disappear among rocks or melt into the vegetation.
then
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He then disappeared to buy a round of teas from the canteen.
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Paul; from there, apparently, they went on to South Dakota, then disappeared .
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Much to the consternation of the operators, Humphrey's shabby figure would appear and then disappear into high-speed machinery.
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The neurological symptoms then disappear by midmorning.
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The circle then disappears wholly, and a glowing red ring of light within marks out the circle of the portal.
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Next, the great herds of buffalo dwindled, then disappeared , as they were slaughtered for their hides.
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The Love Talker preys upon unaccompanied young women, such as shepherdesses or milkmaids, seduces them and then disappears .
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Muir believed in the slow work of glaciers, those powerful carving architects that create and then disappear .
virtually
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He observed how institutional forms of control by society had virtually disappeared .
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Mulchers cut and recut the grass clippings so that they virtually disappear within the lawn.
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Relief-line, and indeed any use of undiluted black, virtually disappears .
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In several cases, a species has virtually disappeared in a few years.
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Support Forest had virtually disappeared as an attacking force, with the outnumbered Clough receiving little support from midfield.
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During a 45-day storm in the winter of 1968-69, the Mount Disney and Mount Lincoln chair lifts virtually disappeared .
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For some years now, the amateur market has been dominated by one-piece machines and separates have virtually disappeared from the scene.
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The gap between the knowledge of. the skilled worker and bourgeois technician has virtually disappeared or been greatly reduced.
■ NOUN
door
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Then they disappeared through the door .
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Amy Winship took one look at him and disappeared quietly through the door , and Ben Bradshaw winced.
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The old man disappeared out the door , a zombie come and gone.
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We disappear through a locked door in the wall.
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He followed Peter Stillman with his eyes until the young man disappeared through the door .
job
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A home together is a dream that shattered when his job disappeared .
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In fact, 400 more jobs disappeared during the second quarter.
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When banking jobs disappear , tax dollars go with them.
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Nearly 400, 000 jobs disappeared in major layoffs announced within the past year.
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Prices are spiralling, the economy is contracting and jobs are disappearing even faster than the emigrants are leaving.
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It is estimated that for each defense job lost, nearly one additional job disappears .
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Nearly 19,000 jobs disappeared last year, 6,000 of them from management.
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Banking is another area where jobs are disappearing .
sight
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It disappeared from sight behind the slope of the hill.
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It disappears out of sight very suddenly.
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So, since he is disappearing from sight , he has dyed his hair black, eyebrows, too.
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Within seconds of the Wheel disappearing from sight the red glow was extinguished.
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The vagrants from the casual ward had disappeared at the sight of the policeman; the street was empty.
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He sat well, she thought, as she watched him turn round the stable wall and disappear out of sight .
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In a few seconds, he had disappeared from sight .
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As they disappeared from sight , a bout of shivering swept over Jack.
trace
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Without radio play, a record can disappear without trace .
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In 1926, mystery writer Agatha Christie suddenly disappeared without a trace from her native Devon.
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The Kershaw Worm had disappeared without a trace .
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Two months later, when the researchers went back to look for the megaplume, it had disappeared without a trace .
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That way they would disappear without trace .
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Hundreds of people disappeared without trace every year.
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Just about everyone hoped they would disappear without trace when that tide ebbed and frenetic buying and selling ground to a halt.
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It is a bit more surprising, however, when that dealer disappears without a trace .
view
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Before afternoon, Treasure Island had disappeared from view , and I had never felt happier to leave a place behind.
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After twenty feet or so I turned to see his figure disappear from view .
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Muttering incomprehensibly, he made for some bushes where he disappeared from Emily's view .
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Then it struck the raft amidships and disappeared from view for a moment.
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He watched them disappear from his view , his father still waddling along with that bloody basket.
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Grover leaned back, disappearing from view as the gay yellow cab puttered away, its muffler clattering forlornly after it.
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The stream is fascinating, disappearing from view from time to time, to re-emerge from beneath road or path in an ever delightful manner.
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To do this she must have a concept that objects still exist after they disappear from view .
■ VERB
appear
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We saw the moon appear and disappear , veiled by clouds.
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They appeared and disappeared in the mist and were too far away to have seen us.
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Quantum mechanics depicts space as a seething foam of uncertainty, with unimaginably short-lived elementary particles appearing and disappear ing.
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Any spots showed themselves early, and they did not enlarge, contract, appear anew, or disappear .
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For a hundred years prior to 1924 the lake was present continually, and has appeared and disappeared again several times since.
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My knees appeared and disappeared in the mists rising from the tub.
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Much to the consternation of the operators, Humphrey's shabby figure would appear and then disappear into high-speed machinery.
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But informal, ad hoc networks may then appear and disappear as the net is rearranged.
seem
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At one point the bag rose so high it seemed to disappear into the night.
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He swung his legs over the windowsill and for an instant his torso seemed to disappear into the darkness inside.
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This possible restraint seems to have disappeared .
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Boundaries and standards seem to be disappearing .
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You can tell these mysterious trails were not made yesterday, because of the way they seem to disappear into thin air.
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Why do we need an All- Star Game now, when all the stars seem to be disappearing ?
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The columbines seemed to have disappeared , and the delphiniums weren't ready yet.
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I looked down; the hooves seemed to be disappearing into a little mist which rose up everywhere around us.
watch
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She watched them disappear into one of the corridors that radiated from the chamber.
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I watched the procession disappear down the stairs.
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He watched them disappear from his view, his father still waddling along with that bloody basket.
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Valda watches him until he disappears into the dark woods behind the house.
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Well worth it ... She turned to watch him disappear down the ladder.
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It would be wonderful to rub some lotion on your thighs and watch your fat disappear .
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Marian leaned over the parapet; the rain, which still streamed down, was forgotten as she watched him rapidly disappear .
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As he watched , the engine disappeared into the earth.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
disappear/vanish from sight
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Then the plane vanished from sight on the radar screen.
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Here the linguistic cocoon is spun to such complexity that the characters and narrative structure sometimes vanish from sight .
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It disappeared from sight behind the slope of the hill.
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She vanished from sight , but Hippolytus, too, was gone.
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So, since he is disappearing from sight , he has dyed his hair black, eyebrows, too.
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The rest of us heard a thin squeak, and started calling for her as she had vanished from sight .
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The shore had vanished from sight .
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Within a few seconds it flew on again, vanishing from sight and hearing.
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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
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As happened during and after the first war of independence, the money has disappeared into thin air.
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It was almost as if he'd vanished into thin air.
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Maybe each and every one of them had vanished into thin air.
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The Cheshire cat is an odd character and he causes confusion when he literally disappears into thin air.
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The money which has suddenly and mysteriously become available simply vanishes into thin air as Ruggiero Miletti magically reappears.
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Victor and his kidnappers had disappeared into thin air.
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Yet he seemed to disappear into thin air.
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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
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"The Little Mermaid" video quickly disappeared from the stores.
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13 year-old Nicola disappeared from her home on Saturday night.
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As the economy improves, workers fears of being laid off have disappeared.
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By the time of the trial, the tape had mysteriously disappeared.
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Drugs won't make the pain disappear altogether, but they will help.
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I thought I had a copy of the notes, but they seem to have disappeared somewhere.
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Once you start drinking too heavily, the beneficial effects of alcohol disappear .
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She watched the boat sail out to sea until it disappeared over the horizon.
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Sheila's car turned the corner and disappeared from view.
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Small companies will disappear by being merged into big ones.
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The dolphin has just about disappeared from the coasts of Britain.
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The letter had mysteriously disappeared from the file overnight.
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The parents of an art student who disappeared in the middle of his exams have made an emotional plea for him to come home.
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The scars will disappear in a year or two.
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The sun disappeared behind a cloud.
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Thousands of miles of rainforest are disappearing every year.
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When I turned round, I discovered the man had disappeared with my bag.
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Where are my keys? They seem to have disappeared.
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Your grief won't disappear overnight. It takes time to get over the death of someone close to you.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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At midnight the lights disappeared and Gilbert was gone; his Newfoundland project lay in neglect for three decades.
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But the urge to indulge, never rational, never completely disappears.
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Moran stayed in bed until late that day, disappearing silently into the fields after eating.
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More of you may be working a flexible schedule that means lunch has disappeared altogether.
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Of course nobody much resents the Bucks now, since they disappeared from national prominence almost as quickly as they arrived.
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She was taken aback to realise just how far her reservations about seeing him had disappeared.
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That way they would disappear without trace.
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They ended in a pair of green bronze doors, each so high that they disappeared into the gloom.