disappear.
To vanish.
Meaning & usage
To vanish.
To go missing; to become a missing person.
Eighteen years after Jaycee Dugard disappeared in 1991, she was found alive in the summer of 2009.
To go away; to become lost.
To make vanish; especially, to abduct or murder for political reasons.
The Chinese government is well-known for disappearing particularly vocal political dissidents.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English disapeeren, equivalent to dis- + appear. Displaced native Old English fordwīnan. Displaced native Old English cwincan, whose causative persists as quench (“put out (fire)”).
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