disappear
To vanish.
Verb 4 meanings
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.”
Etymology
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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DISAPPEAR at a glance
DISAPPEAR has 9 letters and scores 14 points in Scrabble (D 2 + I 1 + S 1 + A 1 + P 3 + P 3 + E 1 + A 1 + R 1) and 16 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #6,034 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
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