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Disappearing   /dˌɪsəpˈɪrɪŋ/   Listen
Disappearing

noun
1.
The act of leaving secretly or without explanation.  Synonym: disappearance.



Disappear

verb
(past & past part. disappeared; pres. part. disappearing)
1.
Get lost, as without warning or explanation.  Synonyms: go away, vanish.
2.
Become invisible or unnoticeable.  Synonyms: go away, vanish.
3.
Cease to exist.  Synonym: vanish.
4.
Become less intense and fade away gradually.  Synonyms: evaporate, melt.  "Her hopes evaporated after years of waiting for her fiance"



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"Disappearing" Quotes from Famous Books



... when I was first called in to nurse her, to the 20th of the same month, she slowly but steadily improved in health. Her knee was still painful, no doubt; but the inflammatory look of it was disappearing. As to the other symptoms, except weakness from lying in bed, and irritability of temper, there was really nothing the matter with her. She slept badly, I ought perhaps to add. But we remedied this by means of composing draughts prescribed for ...
— The Law and the Lady • Wilkie Collins

... the entrenchment, which was rapidly disappearing under the rains and heat of the climate, by the route taken by our people to the promised boats, which were set on fire as soon as they reached them. It was truly a via dolorosa, and we walked on it with saddened ...
— Life and Work in Benares and Kumaon, 1839-1877 • James Kennedy

... being produced by electro-motive force, and electromotive force disappearing in its production in an active circuit, there must be some source of energy which will maintain electromotive force against the drain made ...
— The Standard Electrical Dictionary - A Popular Dictionary of Words and Terms Used in the Practice - of Electrical Engineering • T. O'Conor Slone

... shall appear and give you meat." Their friends, after learning several songs from them, started back to their homes, and after proceeding a short distance, turned around to take one last look, but saw only a number of bears disappearing in the depths of the forest. The songs which they learned are still sung by the hunter to attract ...
— Seventh Annual Report • Various

... Margy being the only Bunker children in sight, Mr. Bunker "shooed" them back to the Pullman car. He saw Rose and Mun Bun disappearing up the high steps, and he presumed Laddie and Violet were ahead. The train had started and the four children and daddy came to mother's seat before it was discovered that there were two little ...
— Six Little Bunkers at Cowboy Jack's • Laura Lee Hope


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