disappear

Definition

To vanish.

Etymology

From Middle English disapeeren, equivalent to dis- + appear. Displaced native Old English fordwīnan.

Example Sentences

• "Eighteen years after Jaycee Dugard disappeared in 1991, she was found alive in the summer of 2009."
• "I corralled the judge, and we started off across the fields[…]. And thus we came by a circuitous route to Mohair,[…]. My client welcomed the judge […] and they disappeared together into the Ethiopian card-room, which was filled with the assegais and exclamation point shields Mr. Cooke had had made at the sawmill at Beaverton."
• "A turban and loincloth soaked in blood had been found; also a staff. These properties were known to have belonged to a toddy drawer. He had disappeared."