{
    "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."
}