Definition of "disappear" in English

verb

1. (intransitive) To vanish.

2. (intransitive) To go missing; to become a missing person.

   • Eighteen years after Jaycee Dugard disappeared in 1991, she was found alive in the summer of 2009.

3. (intransitive) To go away; to become lost.

4. (transitive, often euphemistic) To make vanish; especially, to abduct or murder for political reasons.

   • The Chinese government is well-known for disappearing particularly vocal political dissidents.