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{
"term": "disappear",
"partOfSpeech": "verb",
"ox3000": true,
"cefr": "a2",
"verbForms": {
"presentSimple": {
"iYouWeThey": "disappear",
"heSheIt": "disappears"
},
"pastSimple": "disappeared",
"pastParticiple": "disappeared",
"ingForm": "disappearing"
},
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "to become impossible to see",
"sensetop": "+ adv./prep.",
"cefr": "a2",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "With that, Matt promptly disappeared."
},
{
"text": "The mirror made the ceiling seem to disappear."
},
{
"text": "The plane disappeared behind a cloud.",
"contextForm": "+ adv./prep."
},
{
"text": "Lisa watched until the train **disappeared from view**."
},
{
"text": "Lucy watched his tall figure disappear into the cafe."
}
],
"collocations": {
"adverb": ["altogether", "completely", "entirely"],
"preposition": ["behind", "from", "into"],
"phrases": ["disappear from sight", "disappear from view"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "to stop existing",
"sensetop": "disappear from something",
"cefr": "a2",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "Her nervousness quickly disappeared once she was on stage."
},
{
"text": "The problem won't just disappear."
},
{
"text": "Our countryside is disappearing at an alarming rate."
},
{
"text": "Wildlife is fast disappearing from our countryside.",
"contextForm": "disappear from something"
},
{
"text": "These fish have **virtually disappeared** from their traditional waters."
},
{
"text": "He started the treatment and his symptoms disappeared overnight."
},
{
"text": "The controversy is not going to magically disappear."
},
{
"text": "The traditional way of life has all but disappeared."
},
{
"text": "These forests could disappear altogether in the next twenty years."
},
{
"text": "Why have 2.5 million manufacturing jobs disappeared in the last twenty years?"
},
{
"text": "a rapidly disappearing way of life"
},
{
"text": "The smile disappeared to be replaced by a doleful frown."
},
{
"text": "His grin momentarily disappeared from his face."
}
],
"collocations": {
"adverb": ["altogether", "completely", "entirely"],
"preposition": ["behind", "from", "into"],
"phrases": ["disappear from sight", "disappear from view"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 3,
"definition": "to be lost or impossible to find",
"sensetop": "disappear from something",
"cefr": "a2",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "I can never find a pen in this house. They disappear as soon as I buy them."
},
{
"text": "Then one day he **simply disappeared**."
},
{
"text": "The plane **mysteriously disappeared** over the Indian Ocean."
},
{
"text": "The child disappeared from his home some time after four.",
"contextForm": "disappear from something"
},
{
"text": "The woman literally disappeared on her way home from work one night."
},
{
"text": "The plane suddenly just disappeared from the radar screen."
},
{
"text": "Her father disappeared without trace when she was ten."
},
{
"text": "Her personal website quietly disappeared from the internet."
}
],
"collocations": {
"adverb": ["altogether", "completely", "entirely"],
"preposition": ["behind", "from", "into"],
"phrases": ["disappear from sight", "disappear from view"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 4,
"definition": "if a person is disappeared, they are arrested or captured and kept in prison without trial or killed, usually for political reasons",
"sensetop": "be disappeared",
"examples": [
{
"text": "10 000 people have been disappeared and over 160 000 displaced."
},
{
"text": "One month later, he was disappeared by the regime."
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": 5,
"definition": "to remove something secretly or illegally so that it cannot be found",
"sensetop": "be disappeared (from something)disappear something (from something)",
"examples": [
{
"text": "In the last five years, nearly 5 000 companies have been disappeared from the registry.",
"contextForm": "be disappeared (from something)"
},
{
"text": "Soon after the blog post went up, someone disappeared it.",
"contextForm": "disappear something (from something)"
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "to disappear completely",
"examples": [
{
"text": "Keep looking—they can't just have vanished off the face of the earth."
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "to disappear suddenly in a mysterious way",
"examples": [
{
"text": "She can’t just have vanished into thin air."
},
{
"text": "At a stroke she could make things vanish into thin air."
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "to go away or be impossible to find when people need or want you",
"labels": "(informal)",
"examples": [
{
"text": "The cat had done a disappearing act."
}
]
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˌdɪsəˈpɪə(r)/",
"audio": "di/disappear/disappear__gb_2.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ˌdɪsəˈpɪəz/",
"audio": "di/disappear/disappears__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ˌdɪsəˈpɪəd/",
"audio": "di/disappear/disappeared__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ˌdɪsəˈpɪərɪŋ/",
"audio": "di/disappear/disappearing__gb_1.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˌdɪsəˈpɪr/",
"audio": "di/disappear/disappear__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ˌdɪsəˈpɪrz/",
"audio": "di/disappear/disappears__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ˌdɪsəˈpɪrd/",
"audio": "di/disappear/disappeared__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ˌdɪsəˈpɪrɪŋ/",
"audio": "di/disappear/disappearing__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "late Middle English: from dis- (expressing reversal) + appear, on the pattern of French disparaître."
}