disappear
/dɪsəˈpɪɹ/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.09 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Eighteen years after Jaycee Dugard disappeared in 1991, she was found alive in the summer of 2009."
- "I corralled the judge, and we started off across the fields[…]. And thus we came by a circuitous route to Mohair,[…]. My client welcomed the judge […] and they disappeared together into the Ethiopian card-room, which was filled with the assegais and exclamation point shields Mr. Cooke had had made at the sawmill at Beaverton."
- "A turban and loincloth soaked in blood had been found; also a staff. These properties were known to have belonged to a toddy drawer. He had disappeared."
- "Streaks became what separated my "real" friends from the rest of my contacts on the app. I had to maintain snap streaks not because my friends or I wanted to, but because letting it disappear would see that physical quantification of our friendship fall back down to zero."
- "The Chinese government is well-known for disappearing particularly vocal political dissidents."
- ""Did they disappear him?" "I don’t know." "What will you do if they decide to disappear you?""
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /dɪsəˈpɪɹ/
- British English: /dɪsəˈpɪə/
Usage
Inflected Forms
Derived Forms
Phrases
disappearing act
disappearing carriage
disappearing disease
disappearing stairs
disappear into thin air
up and disappear