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disappear
UK /dɪsəˈpɪə/ US /dɪsəˈpɪɹ/
verb 4
Definitions
verb
1
To vanish.
2
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.
3
To go away; to become lost.
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.
4
To make vanish; especially, to abduct or murder for political reasons.
The Chinese government is well-known for disappearing particularly vocal political dissidents.
"Did they disappear him?" "I don’t know." "What will you do if they decide to disappear you?"
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