disappearance

Definitions

1. The action of disappearing or vanishing
2. The action of disappearing or vanishing.
   countable, uncountable
3. Passing out of sight
4. To cause (someone) to disappear, especially by kidnapping or murder.
5. Passing out of sight.
   countable, uncountable
6. Leaving secretly of without explanation
7. the act or an instance of disappearing; a ceasing to be seen or to exist.
8. Cessation of existence
9. The act or an example of passing out of sight:evanescence, evaporation, fade-out, vanishment.
10. Cessation of existence.
    countable, uncountable
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12. To pass out of sight; vanish: The moon disappeared behind the clouds.
13. To cease to be seen; be missing or unfound: Her purse disappeared from her locker. The plane disappeared somewhere over the Pacific Ocean.
14. To cease to exist: Dinosaurs disappeared at the end of the Cretaceous Period.
15. vanishing, going, passing, disappearing, fading, melting, eclipse, evaporation, evanescence the gradual disappearance of the pain
16. flight, departure, desertion, disappearing trick his disappearance while out on bail
17. loss, losing, theft, mislaying Police are investigating the disappearance of confidential files.

Equivalents

Examples

“Wireless phone technology led to the disappearance of once-common coiled cords for telephone handsets.”

“From the shore, they watched the disappearance of the ships' masts into the haze.”

“The prosecuting attorney was concerned about the potential disappearance of witnesses.”

“A single undoubted cure of a demonstrated cancer or sarcoma by this treatment would be enough to say⟳ definitely that the treatment exerts some specifically curative influence⟳, for the spontaneous disappearance of undoubtedly malignant growths of this character is almost unknown.”

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