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Added 9 October 2026

disappear

/dɪsəˈpɪə/ verb

In Latin: evanescō, vanescō, aborior Wiktionary

verb Definition from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA). Pronunciation from Wiktionary, via Kaikki.org. More about disappear at Wordnik → Where our words come from →

To vanish.
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.
To go away; to become lost.

Origin

From Middle English disapeeren, equivalent to dis- + appear. Displaced native Old English fordwīnan. Displaced native Old English cwincan, whose causative persists as quench (“put out (fire)”).

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