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From Middle English Category:English terms inherited from Middle English#DISAPPEAR Category:English terms derived from Middle English#DISAPPEAR disapeeren, equivalent to dis- +‎ appearCategory:English terms prefixed with dis-#APPEAR. Displaced native Old English fordwīnan.

Displaced native Old English cwincan, whose causative persists as quench (“put out (fire)”).

Verb

disappear (third-person singular simple present disappears, present participle disappearing, simple past and past participle disappeared)Category:English lemmas#DISAPPEAR Category:English verbs#DISAPPEAR Category:English entries with incorrect language header#DISAPPEAR Category:Pages with entries#DISAPPEAR Category:Pages with 1 entry#DISAPPEAR

(intransitive Category:English intransitive verbs#DISAPPEAR) To vanish.
Synonyms: dematerialize, vanish, perish, dissolve

Antonym: appear
(intransitive Category:English intransitive verbs#DISAPPEAR) 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.Category:English terms with usage examples#DISAPPEAR
(intransitive Category:English intransitive verbs#DISAPPEAR) To go away; to become lost.
- 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter VIII, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
  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.
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- 1927, F. E. Penny, chapter 4, in Pulling the Strings:
  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.
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(transitive Category:English transitive verbs#DISAPPEAR, often euphemistic Category:English euphemisms#DISAPPEAR) To make vanish; especially, to abduct or murder for political reasons.
Coordinate term: suicideCategory:English links with manual fragments#DISAPPEAR

The Chinese government is well-known for disappearing particularly vocal political dissidents.Category:English terms with usage examples#DISAPPEAR
- 1961 November 10, Joseph Heller, “Kid Sister”, in Catch-22 […], New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, →OCLC, page 416:
  "Did they disappear him?"
  "I don’t know."
  "What will you do if they decide to disappear you?"
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- 2018 May 2, Marella Oppenheim, “Excavations at Chile torture site offer new hope for relatives of disappeared”, in The Guardian‎, →ISSN:
  Now a new hunt is under way to find a grave believed to contain the remains of some of those who were “disappeared” at Colonia Dignidad.
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- 2019 June 19, Lynn Neary, Patrick Jarenwattananon, quoting Joy Harjo, “Joy Harjo Becomes The First Native American U.S. Poet Laureate”, in npr‎:
  "It's such an honoring for Native people in this country, when we've been so disappeared and disregarded," Harjo says.
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- 2023 December 2, Frederick Studemann, “Civilisation is so easily lost”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 11:
  The book centres on Eilish Stack, a scientist, mother of four and wife to a teacher trade unionist who has been disappeared by the secret police.
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- 2024 October 25, Ghada Abdulfattah and Taylor Luck, “Under deadly Israeli siege, north Gaza residents face terrifying ultimatum”, in The Christian Science Monitor‎:
  Yet after her brother was detained and disappeared by Israeli forces at a checkpoint as he evacuated south months ago, Ms. Nabil, like others, fears moving south.
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Derived terms

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disappearance

Translations

to vanish

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Afrikaans: verdwyn (af)Category:Terms with Afrikaans translations#DISAPPEAR
Aklanon: waea'Category:Terms with Aklanon translations#DISAPPEAR
Albanian: zhdukem (sq)Category:Terms with Albanian translations#DISAPPEAR
Arabic: اِخْتَفَى (ar) (iḵtafā)Category:Terms with Arabic translations#DISAPPEAR
Egyptian Arabic: اختفى (iḵtafā)Category:Terms with Egyptian Arabic translations#DISAPPEAR
Armenian: անհետանալ (hy) (anhetanal)Category:Terms with Armenian translations#DISAPPEAR, կորչել (hy) (korčʻel)Category:Terms with Armenian translations#DISAPPEAR, չքանալ (hy) (čʻkʻanal)Category:Terms with Armenian translations#DISAPPEAR
Azerbaijani: yoxa çıxmaqCategory:Terms with Azerbaijani translations#DISAPPEAR, yox olmaqCategory:Terms with Azerbaijani translations#DISAPPEAR
Basque: desagertuCategory:Terms with Basque translations#DISAPPEAR
Belarusian: зніка́ць impf (znikácʹ)Category:Terms with Belarusian translations#DISAPPEAR, зні́кнуць pf (zníknucʹ)Category:Terms with Belarusian translations#DISAPPEAR
Bengali: অদৃশ্য হত্তয়া (odriśśo hottoẏa)Category:Terms with Bengali translations#DISAPPEAR
Bulgarian: изче́звам (bg) impf (izčézvam)Category:Terms with Bulgarian translations#DISAPPEAR, изче́зна pf (izčézna)Category:Terms with Bulgarian translations#DISAPPEAR
Burmese: ပျောက် (my) (pyauk)Category:Terms with Burmese translations#DISAPPEAR, ပျောက်ကွယ် (my) (pyaukkwai)Category:Terms with Burmese translations#DISAPPEAR, ကွယ်ပျောက် (my) (kwai-pyauk)Category:Terms with Burmese translations#DISAPPEAR
Catalan: desaparèixer (ca)Category:Terms with Catalan translations#DISAPPEAR
Chinese:
Cantonese: 唔見 / 唔见 (m⁴ gin³)Category:Cantonese terms with redundant transliterations#DISAPPEAR Category:Terms with Cantonese translations#DISAPPEAR (informal), 消失 (siu¹ sat¹)Category:Cantonese terms with redundant transliterations#DISAPPEAR Category:Terms with Cantonese translations#DISAPPEAR (formal, literary)

Mandarin: 消失 (zh) (xiāoshī)Category:Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations#DISAPPEAR Category:Terms with Mandarin translations#DISAPPEAR
Choctaw: kʋniaCategory:Terms with Choctaw translations#DISAPPEAR
Czech: mizet (cs) impfCategory:Terms with Czech translations#DISAPPEAR, zmizet (cs) pfCategory:Terms with Czech translations#DISAPPEAR
Danish: forsvinde (da)Category:Terms with Danish translations#DISAPPEAR
Dutch: verdwijnen (nl)Category:Terms with Dutch translations#DISAPPEAR, verzwinden (nl)Category:Terms with Dutch translations#DISAPPEAR
Esperanto: malaperiCategory:Terms with Esperanto translations#DISAPPEAR
Estonian: kaduma (et)Category:Terms with Estonian translations#DISAPPEAR
Finnish: hävitä (fi)Category:Terms with Finnish translations#DISAPPEAR, kadota (fi)Category:Terms with Finnish translations#DISAPPEAR
French: disparaître (fr)Category:Terms with French translations#DISAPPEAR
Galician: desaparecer (gl)Category:Terms with Galician translations#DISAPPEAR
Georgian: გააუჩინარებს (gaaučinarebs)Category:Terms with Georgian translations#DISAPPEAR
German: verschwinden (de)Category:Terms with German translations#DISAPPEAR, entschwinden (de)Category:Terms with German translations#DISAPPEAR
Greek: εξαφανίζομαι (el) (exafanízomai)Category:Terms with Greek translations#DISAPPEAR
Ancient Greek: ἀφανίζομαι (aphanízomai)Category:Ancient Greek links with redundant wikilinks#DISAPPEAR Category:Terms with Ancient Greek translations#DISAPPEAR
Hawaiian: nalowaleCategory:Terms with Hawaiian translations#DISAPPEAR
Hebrew: נֶעֱלַם (he) (ne'elám)Category:Terms with Hebrew translations#DISAPPEAR
Hindi: मिटना (miṭnā)Category:Terms with Hindi translations#DISAPPEAR, ग़ायब होना (ġāyab honā)Category:Terms with Hindi translations#DISAPPEAR
Hungarian: eltűnik (hu)Category:Terms with Hungarian translations#DISAPPEAR
Icelandic: hverfa (is)Category:Terms with Icelandic translations#DISAPPEAR
Ido: desaparar (io)Category:Terms with Ido translations#DISAPPEAR
Indonesian: hilang (id)Category:Terms with Indonesian translations#DISAPPEAR, menghilang (id)Category:Terms with Indonesian translations#DISAPPEAR
Ingrian: hävitäCategory:Terms with Ingrian translations#DISAPPEAR, hävviissäCategory:Terms with Ingrian translations#DISAPPEAR, hukkahuaCategory:Terms with Ingrian translations#DISAPPEAR
Italian: sparire (it)Category:Terms with Italian translations#DISAPPEAR, scomparire (it)Category:Terms with Italian translations#DISAPPEAR, svanire (it)Category:Terms with Italian translations#DISAPPEAR
Japanese: 消える (ja) (きえる, kieru)Category:Terms with Japanese translations#DISAPPEAR
Javanese: ngilang (jv)Category:Terms with Javanese translations#DISAPPEAR
Kazakh: жоғалу (joğalu)Category:Terms with Kazakh translations#DISAPPEAR
Khmer: បាត់ (km) (bat)Category:Terms with Khmer translations#DISAPPEAR
Korean: 사라지다 (ko) (sarajida)Category:Terms with Korean translations#DISAPPEAR
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: ji ber çavan çûnCategory:Terms with Northern Kurdish translations#DISAPPEAR, nepeyda bûnCategory:Terms with Northern Kurdish translations#DISAPPEAR
Kyrgyz: жоголуу (ky) (jogoluu)Category:Terms with Kyrgyz translations#DISAPPEAR, жок болуу (ky) (jok boluu)Category:Terms with Kyrgyz translations#DISAPPEAR
Lao: ສູນ (sūn)Category:Terms with Lao translations#DISAPPEAR, ຫາຍ (hāi)Category:Terms with Lao translations#DISAPPEAR, ຫາຍໄປ (hāi pai)Category:Terms with Lao translations#DISAPPEAR, ສາບສູນ (sāp sūn)Category:Terms with Lao translations#DISAPPEAR, ມະຫັບມະຫາຍ (ma hap ma hāi)Category:Terms with Lao translations#DISAPPEAR
Latin: evanescōCategory:Terms with Latin translations#DISAPPEAR, vanescōCategory:Terms with Latin translations#DISAPPEAR, aboriorCategory:Terms with Latin translations#DISAPPEAR, excidōCategory:Terms with Latin translations#DISAPPEAR, abolescōCategory:Terms with Latin translations#DISAPPEAR, pereōCategory:Terms with Latin translations#DISAPPEAR
Latvian: izgaistCategory:Terms with Latvian translations#DISAPPEAR, pazustCategory:Terms with Latvian translations#DISAPPEAR, zustCategory:Terms with Latvian translations#DISAPPEAR
Lithuanian: dingti (lt)Category:Terms with Lithuanian translations#DISAPPEAR, nyktiCategory:Terms with Lithuanian translations#DISAPPEAR, prapultiCategory:Terms with Lithuanian translations#DISAPPEAR
Macedonian: исчезнува impf (isčeznuva)Category:Terms with Macedonian translations#DISAPPEAR, исчезне pf (isčezne)Category:Terms with Macedonian translations#DISAPPEAR
Malay: hilang (ms)Category:Terms with Malay translations#DISAPPEAR, menghilangCategory:Terms with Malay translations#DISAPPEAR, lenyap (ms)Category:Terms with Malay translations#DISAPPEAR
Malayalam: അപ്രത്യക്ഷമാകുക (apratyakṣamākuka)Category:Terms with Malayalam translations#DISAPPEAR
Maltese: sparixxaCategory:Terms with Maltese translations#DISAPPEAR
Māori: whakanumiCategory:Terms with Māori translations#DISAPPEAR, nunumiCategory:Terms with Māori translations#DISAPPEAR, whatungarongaroCategory:Terms with Māori translations#DISAPPEAR, henumiCategory:Terms with Māori translations#DISAPPEAR, kekeroCategory:Terms with Māori translations#DISAPPEAR, whakaeroCategory:Terms with Māori translations#DISAPPEAR, ngaropokoCategory:Terms with Māori translations#DISAPPEAR, ririuCategory:Terms with Māori translations#DISAPPEAR
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: алга болох (alga bolox)Category:Terms with Mongolian translations#DISAPPEAR, голрох (golrox)Category:Terms with Mongolian translations#DISAPPEAR, арилах (mn) (arilax)Category:Terms with Mongolian translations#DISAPPEAR
Nepali: बिलाउनु (bilāunu)Category:Terms with Nepali translations#DISAPPEAR
Norman: dispathaîtreCategory:Terms with Norman translations#DISAPPEAR
Norwegian:
Bokmål: forsvinne (no)Category:Terms with Norwegian Bokmål translations#DISAPPEAR

Nynorsk: forsvinnaCategory:Terms with Norwegian Nynorsk translations#DISAPPEAR, kvervaCategory:Terms with Norwegian Nynorsk translations#DISAPPEAR
Old English: fordwīnanCategory:Terms with Old English translations#DISAPPEAR
Oromo: baduuCategory:Terms with Oromo translations#DISAPPEAR
Pashto: تروښېدل (trx̌eḍǝ́l)Category:Terms with Pashto translations#DISAPPEAR, نېهامېدل (nehāmedǝ́l)Category:Terms with Pashto translations#DISAPPEAR, غايبېدل (ǧāyebedᶕl)Category:Terms with Pashto translations#DISAPPEAR
Persian: ناپدید شدن (fa) (nâpadid šodan)Category:Terms with Persian translations#DISAPPEAR, گم شدن (fa) (gom šodan)Category:Terms with Persian translations#DISAPPEAR
Piedmontese: svanìCategory:Terms with Piedmontese translations#DISAPPEAR
Polish: znikać (pl) impfCategory:Terms with Polish translations#DISAPPEAR, zniknąć (pl) pfCategory:Terms with Polish translations#DISAPPEAR
Portuguese: desaparecer (pt)Category:Terms with Portuguese translations#DISAPPEAR, sumir (pt)Category:Terms with Portuguese translations#DISAPPEAR
Quechua: chinkarpariyCategory:Terms with Quechua translations#DISAPPEAR
Rapa Nui: garoCategory:Terms with Rapa Nui translations#DISAPPEAR
Romanian: dispărea (ro)Category:Terms with Romanian translations#DISAPPEAR
Romansh: svanirCategory:Terms with Romansh translations#DISAPPEAR
Russian: исчеза́ть (ru) impf (isčezátʹ)Category:Terms with Russian translations#DISAPPEAR, исче́знуть (ru) pf (isčéznutʹ)Category:Terms with Russian translations#DISAPPEAR, пропада́ть (ru) impf (propadátʹ)Category:Terms with Russian translations#DISAPPEAR, пропа́сть (ru) pf (propástʹ)Category:Terms with Russian translations#DISAPPEAR
Sanskrit: नश्यति (sa) (naśyati)Category:Terms with Sanskrit translations#DISAPPEAR
Sardinian: ispàrrereCategory:Terms with Sardinian translations#DISAPPEAR, isparìreCategory:Terms with Sardinian translations#DISAPPEAR, iscumpàrrereCategory:Terms with Sardinian translations#DISAPPEAR
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: нѐстајати impfCategory:Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations#DISAPPEAR, нѐстати pfCategory:Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations#DISAPPEAR

Latin: nèstajati (sh) impfCategory:Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations#DISAPPEAR, nèstati (sh) pfCategory:Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations#DISAPPEAR
Sicilian: spiriri (scn)Category:Terms with Sicilian translations#DISAPPEAR, scumpàrririCategory:Terms with Sicilian translations#DISAPPEAR
Slovak: miznúť impfCategory:Terms with Slovak translations#DISAPPEAR, zmiznúť pfCategory:Terms with Slovak translations#DISAPPEAR
Slovene: izginjati impfCategory:Terms with Slovene translations#DISAPPEAR, izginiti (sl) pfCategory:Terms with Slovene translations#DISAPPEAR
Spanish: desaparecer (es)Category:Terms with Spanish translations#DISAPPEAR, desaparecerse (es)Category:Terms with Spanish translations#DISAPPEAR
Swahili: kutoweka (sw)Category:Terms with Swahili translations#DISAPPEAR
Swedish: försvinna (sv)Category:Terms with Swedish translations#DISAPPEAR
Tajik: нопадид шудан (nopadid šudan)Category:Terms with Tajik translations#DISAPPEAR, гум шудан (tg) (gum šudan)Category:Terms with Tajik translations#DISAPPEAR
Tatar: югалырга (tt) (yuğalırğa)Category:Terms with Tatar translations#DISAPPEAR
Thai: หาย (th) (hǎai)Category:Terms with Thai translations#DISAPPEAR, สูญ (th) (sǔun)Category:Terms with Thai translations#DISAPPEAR, หายไป (hǎai-bpai)Category:Terms with Thai translations#DISAPPEAR
Turkish: gözden kaybolmak (tr) (literally “to be lost from the eye”)Category:Terms with Turkish translations#DISAPPEAR, yok olmak (tr)Category:Terms with Turkish translations#DISAPPEAR
Ottoman Turkish: ییتمك (yitmek)Category:Terms with Ottoman Turkish translations#DISAPPEAR
Turkmen: ýok bolmakCategory:Terms with Turkmen translations#DISAPPEAR
Ukrainian: зника́ти impf (znykáty)Category:Terms with Ukrainian translations#DISAPPEAR, зни́кнути pf (znýknuty)Category:Terms with Ukrainian translations#DISAPPEAR
Urdu: گایب ہونا (gāyab honā)Category:Urdu terms with non-redundant manual transliterations#DISAPPEAR Category:Terms with Urdu translations#DISAPPEAR
Uyghur: يوقالماق (yoqalmaq)Category:Terms with Uyghur translations#DISAPPEAR
Uzbek: yoʻqolmoq (uz)Category:Terms with Uzbek translations#DISAPPEAR, yoʻq boʻlmoqCategory:Terms with Uzbek translations#DISAPPEAR
Vietnamese: biến mất (vi)Category:Terms with Vietnamese translations#DISAPPEAR
Walloon: disparexhe (wa)Category:Terms with Walloon translations#DISAPPEAR
Yiddish: נעלם ווערן (nelem vern)Category:Yiddish terms with non-redundant manual transliterations#DISAPPEAR Category:Terms with Yiddish translations#DISAPPEAR, פֿאַרשווינדן (farshvindn)Category:Terms with Yiddish translations#DISAPPEAR

to make vanish

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Albanian: please add this translation if you canCategory:Requests for translations into Albanian#DISAPPEAR
Arabic: أَخْفَى (ʔaḵfā)Category:Terms with Arabic translations#DISAPPEAR
Armenian: անհետացնել (hy) (anhetacʻnel)Category:Terms with Armenian translations#DISAPPEAR
Chinese:
Mandarin: 滅絕 / 灭绝 (zh) (mièjué)Category:Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations#DISAPPEAR Category:Terms with Mandarin translations#DISAPPEAR, 被失蹤 / 被失踪Category:Terms with Mandarin translations#DISAPPEAR, 被消失Category:Terms with Mandarin translations#DISAPPEAR
Czech: zmizet (cs)Category:Terms with Czech translations#DISAPPEAR
Danish: få til at forsvindeCategory:Terms with Danish translations#DISAPPEAR
Dutch: laten verdwijnenCategory:Terms with Dutch translations#DISAPPEAR
Esperanto: malaperigiCategory:Terms with Esperanto translations#DISAPPEAR
Estonian: please add this translation if you canCategory:Requests for translations into Estonian#DISAPPEAR
Finnish: hävittää (fi)Category:Terms with Finnish translations#DISAPPEAR, kadottaa (fi)Category:Terms with Finnish translations#DISAPPEAR
French: faire disparaîtreCategory:Terms with French translations#DISAPPEAR
German: zum Verschwinden bringenCategory:Terms with German translations#DISAPPEAR, verschwinden lassenCategory:Terms with German translations#DISAPPEAR
Greek: εξαφανίζω (el) (exafanízo)Category:Terms with Greek translations#DISAPPEAR
Ancient Greek: ἀφανίζω (aphanízō)Category:Terms with Ancient Greek translations#DISAPPEAR
Hawaiian: hoʻonalowaleCategory:Terms with Hawaiian translations#DISAPPEAR
Hebrew: הֶעֱלִים (he'elím)Category:Terms with Hebrew translations#DISAPPEAR
Hungarian: please add this translation if you canCategory:Requests for translations into Hungarian#DISAPPEAR
Ingrian: hävittääCategory:Terms with Ingrian translations#DISAPPEAR
Latin: aboriorCategory:Terms with Latin translations#DISAPPEAR, vanescoCategory:Terms with Latin translations#DISAPPEAR, extiguorCategory:Terms with Latin translations#DISAPPEAR
Latvian: please add this translation if you canCategory:Requests for translations into Latvian#DISAPPEAR
Lithuanian: pradangintiCategory:Terms with Lithuanian translations#DISAPPEAR
Malayalam: അപ്രത്യക്ഷമാക്കുക (apratyakṣamākkuka)Category:Terms with Malayalam translations#DISAPPEAR
Māori: whakangaroCategory:Terms with Māori translations#DISAPPEAR, whakahenumiCategory:Terms with Māori translations#DISAPPEAR
Norwegian:
Bokmål: få til å forsvinneCategory:Terms with Norwegian Bokmål translations#DISAPPEAR, fjerne (no)Category:Terms with Norwegian Bokmål translations#DISAPPEAR

Nynorsk: få til å forsvinnaCategory:Terms with Norwegian Nynorsk translations#DISAPPEAR, fjernaCategory:Terms with Norwegian Nynorsk translations#DISAPPEAR
Polish: porywać (pl) impfCategory:Terms with Polish translations#DISAPPEAR (to abduct), porwać (pl) pfCategory:Terms with Polish translations#DISAPPEAR (to abduct)
Portuguese: fazer sumirCategory:Terms with Portuguese translations#DISAPPEAR, fazer desaparecerCategory:Terms with Portuguese translations#DISAPPEAR, sumir comCategory:Terms with Portuguese translations#DISAPPEAR, desaparecer comCategory:Terms with Portuguese translations#DISAPPEAR
Romanian: please add this translation if you canCategory:Requests for translations into Romanian#DISAPPEAR
Russian: убира́ть (ru) impf (ubirátʹ)Category:Terms with Russian translations#DISAPPEAR, убра́ть (ru) pf (ubrátʹ)Category:Terms with Russian translations#DISAPPEAR
Slovak: please add this translation if you canCategory:Requests for translations into Slovak#DISAPPEAR
Spanish: desaparecer (es)Category:Terms with Spanish translations#DISAPPEAR
Thai: please add this translation if you canCategory:Requests for translations into Thai#DISAPPEAR
Turkish: please add this translation if you canCategory:Requests for translations into Turkish#DISAPPEAR
Ukrainian: please add this translation if you canCategory:Requests for translations into Ukrainian#DISAPPEAR

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