disappear

About 10.24 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. verb To vanish.
2. verb 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. verb To go away; to become lost.
4. verb To make vanish; especially, to abduct or murder for political reasons.

   The Chinese government is well-known for disappearing particularly vocal political dissidents.

Similar words

vanish go away disappearance vanishing evanish leave elimination abolish dispel stop

Often followed by

in from and into as when with at after

Word family

disappearance disappearances disappeared disappearing disappears