disappears
- 1Third-person singular simple present of disappear.
The trail disappears into thick forest after the second mile.
Cell coverage disappears the moment the train enters the tunnel.
Note
An object after this verb changes everything. Usually nothing follows: a trail, a signal or a missing person simply goes from view. In the euphemistic transitive use, though, a government disappears its critics, meaning it abducts or murders them for political reasons. With he, she, it or a singular noun as subject, an object after the verb is the sign of that darker sense.
The regime disappears anyone who speaks against it.
When a state disappears a journalist, the silence is the message.
disappears is a form of disappear
disappear, verb: To stop being visible; to pass out of sight. Full entry
- Forms
- disappeardisappears he/she/itdisappearing -ing formdisappeared past tense, past participle
- Spelling
- disappear → disappears: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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