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# disappear

«disappear» in Mova's school dictionary: **to go out of sight so that you can no longer be seen** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (disappear, disappears, disappeared, disappearing); noun disappearance

### meaning for a pupil

1) To disappear means to go out of sight so that you can no longer be seen. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/disappear/#m1)

2) To disappear means to stop existing or to be lost: the dinosaurs disappeared long ago. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/disappear/#m2)

3) If something disappears, it may have been taken or lost and cannot be found. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/disappear/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In science things seem to disappear but often change form: sugar disappears in water (dissolves) but is still there; a puddle disappears because the water evaporates. In stories, disappearing is magic or mystery: a disappearing coin, a missing character. In safety lessons, if a friend or little child disappears from view, tell an adult straight away. Phrases: disappear from view, disappear into thin air, a disappearing act, vanish.

### examples

- The sun disappeared behind a cloud. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/disappear/#x1)
- My pencil has disappeared again! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/disappear/#x2)
- The rabbit disappeared down a hole. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/disappear/#x3)
- Sugar seems to disappear when you stir it into tea, but it's still there. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/disappear/#x4)
- The puddles disappeared after the sun came out. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/disappear/#x5)
- Many kinds of animals are disappearing because their homes are destroyed. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/disappear/#x6)
- The magician made the coin disappear. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/disappear/#x7)
- If your little brother disappears in a shop, tell a member of staff. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/disappear/#x8)
- Then they finished dressing and disappeared. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/disappear/#x9)

### note

Spelling: one «s», two «p»: dis-ap-pear. Regular: disappeared. «Disappear» does not take an object: «the coin disappeared», but «the magician made the coin disappear». Opposite: appear. In science «disappear» usually means changed or hidden, not destroyed.

### In the corpora

- [Some of the smallest animals here are the rarest of all, and zoos breed them to save kinds that would otherwise disappear.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/97-the-insect-house-ants-stick-insects-tarantulas-and-scorpions/4/)
- [Bees have disappeared from some places because of pesticides (sprays that kill insects), illness and the loss of flowers.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/218-bees-and-wasps-in-the-garden/13/)
- [Sousliks are a main food for steppe eagles, imperial eagles and steppe polecats, so when souslik colonies disappear these hunters disappear too.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/373-ukraine-s-steppe-marmots-sousliks-great-bustards-and-askania-nova/13/)
- [The animals built for the cold steppe disappeared, though scientists still argue how much was climate and how much was people.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/385-ice-age-ukraine-and-europe-cave-bears-cave-lions-the-siberian-unicorn-and-mammoth-bone-houses/7/)
- [The Cat's head fades away while he is gone; when he comes back with the Duchess, it has entirely disappeared.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/16-alice-the-queens-croquet-ground-2/28/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «disappear» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/disappear/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.