disappearance

/dɪsəˈpɪəɹəns/

noun 4

Collocations

(noun.)

ADJ

abrupt, sudden

The sudden disappearance of the cat worried the family for several days.

rapid

Many species faced rapid disappearance due to habitat loss over the past century.

gradual | complete, total | virtual | apparent | mysterious

VERB + DISAPPEARANCE

lead to

The closure of the factory led to the sudden disappearance of hundreds of jobs in the town.

investigate

The detective decided to investigate the sudden disappearance of the family's valuable paintings.

explain

PREP

~ from

The sudden disappearance from the village of three families caused great concern among local people.

Definitions

noun

The action of disappearing or vanishing.

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

As hundreds of volunteers and police scoured parks and waterways in an area of New Orleans Tuesday, there were many questions but few answers about the disappearance 11 days ago of a 26-year-old teacher.

Passing out of sight.

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

Leaving secretly of without explanation

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

Cessation of existence.

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.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

noun — the act of leaving secretly or without explanation

disappearing

noun — gradually ceasing to be visible

fade

Antonyms

appearance

Idioms & Phrases

Example Bank

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

Wiktionary

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

Wiktionary

We have to look into the disappearance of the doctor.

Tatoeba · #49638

The police are looking into his disappearance.

Tatoeba · #238347

We are going to look into the disappearance of the money.

Tatoeba · #247913

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