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UK
/dˌɪsɐpˈiə/
]
[ US /ˌdɪsəˈpiɹ, ˌdɪsəˈpɪɹ/ ]
[ US /ˌdɪsəˈpiɹ, ˌdɪsəˈpɪɹ/ ]
VERB
-
become less intense and fade away gradually
her resistance melted under his charm
her hopes evaporated after years of waiting for her fiance -
become invisible or unnoticeable
The effect vanished when day broke -
get lost, as without warning or explanation
He disappeared without a trace -
cease to exist
An entire civilization vanished
How To Use disappear In A Sentence
- He watched them disappear from his view, his father still waddling along with that bloody basket.
- In response to the outcry, as well as to the fact that colorization did not end up being the boon colorizers thought it would be, the practice thankfully disappeared after only a couple of years.
- A study by Conservation International, an American organisation, found that nearly a third of frogs, toads, newts and other amphibian species were likely to disappear within 100 years.
- Strange flashes of varicoloured, rainbow light began to appear and disappear on the path before me.
- The digital flux that frames our experience of physical and socio-political realities functions through continuous additions, subtractions, and disappearances.
- So many useful shops disappear, to be replaced by a retail outlet that is not welcomed by many of us.
- The servants disappeared as if they were whiffs of smoke blown away by the wind.
- They probably can't bleep a specific word on the fly so the sound would just disappear for a period.
- A year later, in ‘L' Allegro ’, the delphic element had disappeared, and Milton's cheerful man heard ‘Sweetest Shakespeare, fancy's child Warble his native woodnotes wild’.
- I was haunted by the beauty of the landscape all about, of the natural ferneries then disappearing, and of the domed forest-trees on the slopes, and was fortunate in meeting a gentleman intent on preserving in art the beauties of his country. Sailing Alone Around the World