Disappear
verb
No longer be visible, hard to find or notice.
The sun disappeared behind the clouds.
Often appears as...
- disappear without a trace
- disappear from view
verb
To go missing, especially in a sudden or unexplained way.
My phone has disappeared again; I can't find it anywhere.
Often appears as...
- disappear from the radar
- disappear into thin air
verb
To stop existing.
The tradition has disappeared over the years.
Often appears as...
- disappear from memory
- disappear from history
verb
No longer be visible, hard to find or notice.
The sun disappeared behind the clouds.
Often appears as...
- disappear without a trace
- disappear from view
verb
To go missing, especially in a sudden or unexplained way.
My phone has disappeared again; I can't find it anywhere.
Often appears as...
- disappear from the radar
- disappear into thin air
verb
To stop existing.
The tradition has disappeared over the years.
Often appears as...
- disappear from memory
- disappear from history
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Pro Tip 1/2Hidden by objects
Use 'disappear' when something is no longer visible because it's blocked by something else.
The plane disappeared into the clouds.
Pro Tip 2/2Visual tricks
'Disappear' is sometimes used to describe something that seems to vanish, because of a visual trick.
The coin seemed to disappear in the magician's hand.
Pro Tip 1/2Hidden by objects
Use 'disappear' when something is no longer visible because it's blocked by something else.
The plane disappeared into the clouds.
Pro Tip 2/2Visual tricks
'Disappear' is sometimes used to describe something that seems to vanish, because of a visual trick.
The coin seemed to disappear in the magician's hand.
Pro Tip 1/2Hidden by objects
Use 'disappear' when something is no longer visible because it's blocked by something else.
The plane disappeared into the clouds.
Pro Tip 2/2Visual tricks
'Disappear' is sometimes used to describe something that seems to vanish, because of a visual trick.
The coin seemed to disappear in the magician's hand.
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What makes a poem … a...
Poetry has a shape that we can usually recognize. Its line breaks help readers navigate the rhythms of a poem. But what if those line breaks disappeared? Would it lose its essence as a poem? Maybe not. Enter the prose poem. Prose poems use vivid images and wordplay
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An inside look at...
oppressive state after all I could gather as I liked I could rail against the government as I wanted nobody was going to black-bag me and disappear me but most importantly the Islamic University that I attended I met a young Islamic scholar who would challenge my
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Nature's Oddest Looking...
pigs are omnivores as well as stripping the forests of the fruit the cassowaries depend on they can eat their eggs and even their chicks with such a small population this new threat could see the cassowary disappear forever from
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Larry Smith: Why you...
Because -- goodness, you're all cheery about failing. Canadian group, undoubtedly. Those trying to have good careers are going to fail, because, really, good jobs are now disappearing. There are great jobs and great careers,
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How does caffeine keep...
and depressed moods. But in a few days, the extra adenosine receptors will disappear, your body will readjust, and you'll feel just as alert as ever, even without an infusion of the world's most popular stimulant.
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How aspirin was...
If they scraped the bark off a particular kind of tree and ate it, their pain disappeared. Little did they know that why they'd found was destined to influence the future course of medicine.
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ONE HOUR of Amazing...
even the river normally a lifeline for the animals has almost disappeared yet the mud soup that remains could be concealing a free lunch if only the leopards can figure out what
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Haunted City PIPE National...
ancient world a vast valley of monuments that dominated the landscape but one day something terrible happened here and the civilization disappeared along with all
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Leopard Learns How to...
Even the river, normally a lifeline for the animals, has almost disappeared.
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Why are some people...
were designed for the right-handed majority. Because lefties are worse at using these tools, and suffer from higher accident rates, they would be less successful in a purely cooperative world, eventually disappearing from the population. So by correctly predicting the distribution
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What makes a poem … a...
Poetry has a shape that we can usually recognize. Its line breaks help readers navigate the rhythms of a poem. But what if those line breaks disappeared? Would it lose its essence as a poem? Maybe not. Enter the prose poem. Prose poems use vivid images and wordplay
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An inside look at...
oppressive state after all I could gather as I liked I could rail against the government as I wanted nobody was going to black-bag me and disappear me but most importantly the Islamic University that I attended I met a young Islamic scholar who would challenge my
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Nature's Oddest Looking...
pigs are omnivores as well as stripping the forests of the fruit the cassowaries depend on they can eat their eggs and even their chicks with such a small population this new threat could see the cassowary disappear forever from
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Larry Smith: Why you...
Because -- goodness, you're all cheery about failing. Canadian group, undoubtedly. Those trying to have good careers are going to fail, because, really, good jobs are now disappearing. There are great jobs and great careers,
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How does caffeine keep...
and depressed moods. But in a few days, the extra adenosine receptors will disappear, your body will readjust, and you'll feel just as alert as ever, even without an infusion of the world's most popular stimulant.
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How aspirin was...
If they scraped the bark off a particular kind of tree and ate it, their pain disappeared. Little did they know that why they'd found was destined to influence the future course of medicine.
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ONE HOUR of Amazing...
even the river normally a lifeline for the animals has almost disappeared yet the mud soup that remains could be concealing a free lunch if only the leopards can figure out what
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Haunted City PIPE National...
ancient world a vast valley of monuments that dominated the landscape but one day something terrible happened here and the civilization disappeared along with all
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Leopard Learns How to...
Even the river, normally a lifeline for the animals, has almost disappeared.
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Noam Chomsky
American Activist
I did used to have nightmares about the idea that when I die, there is a spark of consciousness which basically creates the world. 'Is the world going to disappear if this spark of consciousness disappears? And how do I know it won't? How do I know there's anything there except what I'm conscious of?
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Gabriella Wilde
English Actress
When you play a lead role, you're in pretty much every scene. It's incredibly tiring. You really have to disappear into the film because you have no time to do anything else. You are either awake and playing the character, or you are trying to catch up on sleep.
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Thich Nhat Hanh
Vietnamese Clergyman
If you can feel that Mother Earth is in you, and you are Mother Earth, then you are not any longer afraid to die because the earth is not dying. Like a wave appears and disappears and appears again.
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George Takei
American Actor
Radio dramas have disappeared. What we do have now is books on tape, which I find wonderful. I've done some of those. Otherwise, radio acting is now gone.
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Harry Graf Kessler
German Diplomat
Until we have created a romance of peace that would equal that of war, violence will not disappear from people's lives.
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Jayson Blair
American Journalist
Some people it seems to me would like for me to crawl in a hole and disappear forever. That's just not in my nature.
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Mark Twain
American Writer
When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
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Ehud Olmert
Israeli Politician
The enemies of peace have not disappeared.
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Lawrence Durrell
British Writer
Truth disappears with the telling of it.
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Robert Motherwell
American Artist
Wherever art appears, life disappears.
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Noam Chomsky
American Activist
I did used to have nightmares about the idea that when I die, there is a spark of consciousness which basically creates the world. 'Is the world going to disappear if this spark of consciousness disappears? And how do I know it won't? How do I know there's anything there except what I'm conscious of?
Quote examples
Gabriella Wilde
English Actress
When you play a lead role, you're in pretty much every scene. It's incredibly tiring. You really have to disappear into the film because you have no time to do anything else. You are either awake and playing the character, or you are trying to catch up on sleep.
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Thich Nhat Hanh
Vietnamese Clergyman
If you can feel that Mother Earth is in you, and you are Mother Earth, then you are not any longer afraid to die because the earth is not dying. Like a wave appears and disappears and appears again.
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George Takei
American Actor
Radio dramas have disappeared. What we do have now is books on tape, which I find wonderful. I've done some of those. Otherwise, radio acting is now gone.
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Harry Graf Kessler
German Diplomat
Until we have created a romance of peace that would equal that of war, violence will not disappear from people's lives.
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Jayson Blair
American Journalist
Some people it seems to me would like for me to crawl in a hole and disappear forever. That's just not in my nature.
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Mark Twain
American Writer
When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
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Ehud Olmert
Israeli Politician
The enemies of peace have not disappeared.
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Lawrence Durrell
British Writer
Truth disappears with the telling of it.
Quote examples
Robert Motherwell
American Artist
Wherever art appears, life disappears.
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