Dictionary entry details
• DISAPPEAR (verb)
Meaning:
Get lost, as without warning or explanation
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Synonyms:
disappear; vanish; go away
Context example:
He disappeared without a trace
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "disappear"):
fall away; fall off (diminish in size or intensity)
desorb (go away from the surface to which (a substance) is adsorbed)
die off; die out (become extinct)
skip town; take a powder (disappear without notifying anyone (idiom))
fade; wither (lose freshness, vigor, or vitality)
blow over; evanesce; fade; fleet; pass; pass off (disappear gradually)
absent; remove (go away or leave)
go (be abolished or discarded)
die (disappear or come to an end)
fall (go as if by falling)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Something is ----ing PP
Somebody ----s PP
Sentence examples:
Sam and Sue disappear
These cars won't disappear
Antonym:
appear (come into sight or view)
Meaning:
Become invisible or unnoticeable
Classified under:
Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling
Synonyms:
disappear; vanish; go away
Context example:
The effect vanished when day broke
Hypernyms (to "disappear" is one way to...):
cease; end; finish; stop; terminate (have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "disappear"):
dematerialise; dematerialize (become immaterial; disappear)
clear (go away or disappear)
bob under (disappear suddenly, as if under the surface of a body of water)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP
Sentence example:
The moon will soon disappear
Meaning:
Cease to exist
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Synonyms:
disappear; vanish
Context example:
An entire civilization vanished
Hypernyms (to "disappear" is one way to...):
cease; end; finish; stop; terminate (have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s
Antonym:
appear (come into being or existence, or appear on the scene)
Meaning:
Become less intense and fade away gradually
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Synonyms:
disappear; melt
Context example:
her resistance melted under his charm
Hypernyms (to "disappear" is one way to...):
weaken (become weaker)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Something is ----ing PP
