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Disappear   /dˌɪsəpˈɪr/   Listen
verb
Disappear  v. i.  (past & past part. disappeared; pres. part. disappearing)  
1.
To cease to appear or to be perceived; to pass from view, gradually or suddenly; to vanish; to be no longer seen; as, darkness disappears at the approach of light; a ship disappears as she sails from port.
2.
To cease to be or exist; as, the epidemic has disappeared.





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"Disappear" Quotes from Famous Books



... and a good swing of arm and body, as such a delivery will make the ball rise quickly and perpendicularly from the pitch; but the action must at all costs be easy and free, qualities which neither imitation nor education must allow to disappear.' ...
— From a Cornish Window - A New Edition • Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
... Captain. "Why didn't they shoot, or yell, or make some sort of a row that would have brought help? I've got a lot of old women here who could have stood off an attacking party! Force—nothing! Lieutenant Rowe was in the deal. He wanted to disappear with something he had in his possession, and he worked ...
— Boy Scouts in the Philippines - Or, The Key to the Treaty Box • G. Harvey Ralphson
... read at least twelve hours every day of his life, and that exclusively old history and politics, though his favourite books were Thomas Carlyle's works. Two or three evenings in the week, when he had seen me safe settled at my studies, he used to disappear mysteriously for several hours, and it was some time before I found out, by a chance expression, that he was attending some meeting or committee of working-men. I begged him to take me there with him. But I was stopped ...
— Alton Locke, Tailor And Poet • Rev. Charles Kingsley et al
... from an Innumerable company of Lucid Reflections, from the several Gently wav'd Superficies of the Water, which look'd Near at hand like a Multitude of very Little, but Shining Scales of Fish, of which many did every moment Disappear, and as many were by the Sun, Wind and River generated anew. But though this Observation seem'd Sufficiently to discover, how the Appearing Whiteness in that case was Produc'd, yet in some other cases Water may have the Same, though not so Vivid a Colour upon other Accounts; ...
— Experiments and Considerations Touching Colours (1664) • Robert Boyle
... was just in time to see them disappear. He watched Sammy Jay flying over to the Green Forest and screaming "Thief! thief!" ...
— The Adventures of Johnny Chuck • Thornton W. Burgess


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