verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a custom dies out/disappears (=gradually stops being done)
▪ Sometimes the streets are decorated with flower petals, although this custom is dying out.
disappear around a corner
▪ We watched the two boys disappear around the corner.
disappear from view
▪ She disappeared from view around the corner.
disappear/vanish into the mist (=stop being seen because of the mist)
▪ He passed me on the trail and disappeared into the mist.
disappear/vanish/sink without (a) trace (=disappear completely, without leaving any sign of what happened)
▪ The plane vanished without a trace.
fast becoming/disappearing/approaching etc
▪ Access to the Internet is fast becoming a necessity.
symptoms disappear
▪ The symptoms should disappear after a few days.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
again
▪ Gannets and fulmars appeared out of the mist, flew alongside for a few minutes and disappeared again.
▪ Then finally the Friendship straightened out and again disappeared, this time for good, heading northeast.
▪ Dennison crossed the road and disappeared again.
▪ At that time another course of radiation was given and they again disappeared.
▪ For a hundred years prior to 1924 the lake was present continually, and has appeared and disappeared again several times since.
▪ By the end of the summer, however, Alvin was ready to disappear again.
▪ Each must constantly be presented anew, only to disappear again.
▪ She knew the offers would disappear again the very moment she tried to take them up.
almost
▪ From one fairly typical grammar school, studied by Colin Lacey, the fee-payers had almost disappeared as early as 1925.
▪ Flying, of course, has reduced and humanized this vastness, making distances almost disappear.
▪ By the 1770s the winding-sheet had almost disappeared, to be replaced by coffin sheets.
▪ It can be quite a craze in a neighbourhood for a while and then almost disappear.
▪ My tiredness had now almost disappeared as I made my way along the drive of Brigade H.Q and out into the village.
▪ A few patches of such use can still be seen today, especially on small islands, but the practice has almost disappeared.
▪ Although this usage has almost disappeared, it is still visible in pigeon fanciers.
▪ Meaning wrapped up in waffle Meaning may be wrapped in so many layers of words or unnecessary phrases that it almost disappears.
altogether
▪ Repeated attempts to provoke an attack may cause the symptoms to disappear altogether.
▪ More of you may be working a flexible schedule that means lunch has disappeared altogether.
▪ Become a part of your local scene and it may well disappear altogether, except when your activities arouse friendly interest.
▪ Perhaps in time, if washed by tears, they will become indistinct and a few will disappear altogether.
▪ If you look too hard it disappears altogether into a kind of wistful, disappointed light in the night sky.
▪ And as that sense of independence grew, so the need I felt to control my weight subsided and finally disappeared altogether.
▪ He seems to have bloody well disappeared altogether.
▪ But this collaboration of culture and nature also meant that females were on the verge of disappearing altogether.
completely
▪ This gradually lessened through the spring and disappeared completely in the summer.
▪ But the urge to indulge, never rational, never completely disappears.
▪ In fact he was in danger of disappearing completely.
▪ Before long, the explosive story is thoroughly media-wrenched, until the line between reality and sensational fantasy completely disappears.
▪ Beyond perhaps a specialist 12-inch dance market, it will eventually disappear completely.
▪ Some meteor showers last just one or two nights, to disappear completely until the same two nights the next year.
▪ And if to is completely meaningless when used with the infinitive, why isn't it tending to disappear completely?
▪ The oats have almost completely disappeared into the bread.
down
▪ Ed says as he leaves the living room and disappears down a hall.
▪ They picked up their skis and disappeared down the Vallée Blanche.
▪ They disappeared down one of the side streets.
▪ The two cars swing out of the palace gates, and disappear down the avenue.
▪ Well worth it ... She turned to watch him disappear down the ladder.
▪ He heard a burst of gunfire and saw a car disappearing down the Glen Road.
▪ Pleased, they trailed outside, disappeared down the concrete road.
entirely
▪ But if we can achieve that, then their argument on the urgency for entry entirely disappears.
▪ About 1629, scarcely a quarter-century after the first accounts of it, the cahow disappeared entirely.
▪ Such taboos have not entirely disappeared today.
▪ The small lead to which Samuel had previously clung had entirely disappeared.
▪ He had disappeared entirely, leaving me to wonder what the hell he was playing at.
▪ Robertsbridge, the great Cistercian house, disappeared entirely, torn down by the local people.
▪ They lose much of their natural paranoia about predators, but is never disappears entirely.
▪ This is not to say that the age of the Great Leader has entirely disappeared.
fast
▪ This familiarity, this friendliness of science is fast disappearing under the banner of standardisation.
▪ These historic opportunities are fast disappearing for our community.
▪ All have some money, though in the case of Glamorgan it is disappearing fast.
▪ Even the open space that remains in Cairo is fast disappearing.
▪ Hold on to the farmland fast disappearing under subdivisions.
▪ Even those who oppose choice in principle are fast disappearing.
▪ They may be rusty, old and a little slow, but at tommorrow's auction these machines are expected to disappear fast.
▪ It's getting very lonely in the dusk and the river is fast disappearing, massive mudflats and a Lego landscape.
for ever
▪ You would be so shocked and so disgusted that whatever faint chance of your return is left would disappear forever.
▪ Some stories ready to go disappeared forever.
▪ You put what I say in your mind and wrap it up and it disappears forever.
▪ Islands that can sink or disappear forever.
▪ Worse, however, is the situation regarding the back catalogue: once initial stock are exhausted the titles frequently disappear forever.
▪ The days of the dainty cup and saucer seem to have disappeared forever.
just
▪ A figure in black was just disappearing into the wood.
▪ My statement to Molto has just disappeared from this case.
▪ He's just disappeared, gone, vanished.
▪ Great September stories faded and Mike Piazza just disappeared, his swing in tatters.
▪ Loose powder is the first choice of makeup artists because it's lighter than pressed and just disappears into your skin.
▪ Over the next few weeks the several squads of tourists in evidence on his arrival just disappeared.
▪ They wish the inner city, which is three-quarters black, would just disappear.
simply
▪ It is in this way that the apparent divide between literate and non-literate cultures simply disappears.
▪ In that case, the manipulated emotion simply disappears.
▪ Would Johnny simply disappear before they could reach the bed?
▪ I could simply disappear to the center of Cleveland or Detroit, become somebody different, and never see my son again.
▪ They hadn't disappeared simply because she had chosen not to reveal them to the world.
▪ National countercyclical Keynesian stimulus policies have simply disappeared.
▪ Aunt Elisaveta had simply disappeared months earlier.
▪ Though Taylor was gone by then, Midvale had not simply disappeared into his past.
suddenly
▪ The previous mayor, Sanyu Ishii, disappeared suddenly after resigning in mid-June because of mounting gambling debts.
▪ There are an estimated 30 million species of insects, and if they were to suddenly disappear so would we.
▪ The puddle suddenly disappears and I look over at Marie.
▪ In 1926, mystery writer Agatha Christie suddenly disappeared without a trace from her native Devon.
▪ That ship had suddenly disappeared in placid waters without trace.
▪ It is claimed that he suddenly disappears when approached.
▪ When finally, remaining wartime controls were abolished these influences did not suddenly disappear.
▪ And once they have spotted you they suddenly disappear among rocks or melt into the vegetation.
then
▪ He then disappeared to buy a round of teas from the canteen.
▪ Paul; from there, apparently, they went on to South Dakota, then disappeared.
▪ Much to the consternation of the operators, Humphrey's shabby figure would appear and then disappear into high-speed machinery.
▪ The neurological symptoms then disappear by midmorning.
▪ The circle then disappears wholly, and a glowing red ring of light within marks out the circle of the portal.
▪ Next, the great herds of buffalo dwindled, then disappeared, as they were slaughtered for their hides.
▪ The Love Talker preys upon unaccompanied young women, such as shepherdesses or milkmaids, seduces them and then disappears.
▪ Muir believed in the slow work of glaciers, those powerful carving architects that create and then disappear.
virtually
▪ He observed how institutional forms of control by society had virtually disappeared.
▪ Mulchers cut and recut the grass clippings so that they virtually disappear within the lawn.
▪ Relief-line, and indeed any use of undiluted black, virtually disappears.
▪ In several cases, a species has virtually disappeared in a few years.
▪ Support Forest had virtually disappeared as an attacking force, with the outnumbered Clough receiving little support from midfield.
▪ During a 45-day storm in the winter of 1968-69, the Mount Disney and Mount Lincoln chair lifts virtually disappeared.
▪ For some years now, the amateur market has been dominated by one-piece machines and separates have virtually disappeared from the scene.
▪ The gap between the knowledge of. the skilled worker and bourgeois technician has virtually disappeared or been greatly reduced.
■ NOUN
door
▪ Then they disappeared through the door.
▪ Amy Winship took one look at him and disappeared quietly through the door, and Ben Bradshaw winced.
▪ The old man disappeared out the door, a zombie come and gone.
▪ We disappear through a locked door in the wall.
▪ He followed Peter Stillman with his eyes until the young man disappeared through the door.
job
▪ A home together is a dream that shattered when his job disappeared.
▪ In fact, 400 more jobs disappeared during the second quarter.
▪ When banking jobs disappear, tax dollars go with them.
▪ Nearly 400, 000 jobs disappeared in major layoffs announced within the past year.
▪ Prices are spiralling, the economy is contracting and jobs are disappearing even faster than the emigrants are leaving.
▪ It is estimated that for each defense job lost, nearly one additional job disappears.
▪ Nearly 19,000 jobs disappeared last year, 6,000 of them from management.
▪ Banking is another area where jobs are disappearing.
sight
▪ It disappeared from sight behind the slope of the hill.
▪ It disappears out of sight very suddenly.
▪ So, since he is disappearing from sight, he has dyed his hair black, eyebrows, too.
▪ Within seconds of the Wheel disappearing from sight the red glow was extinguished.
▪ The vagrants from the casual ward had disappeared at the sight of the policeman; the street was empty.
▪ He sat well, she thought, as she watched him turn round the stable wall and disappear out of sight.
▪ In a few seconds, he had disappeared from sight.
▪ As they disappeared from sight, a bout of shivering swept over Jack.
trace
▪ Without radio play, a record can disappear without trace.
▪ In 1926, mystery writer Agatha Christie suddenly disappeared without a trace from her native Devon.
▪ The Kershaw Worm had disappeared without a trace.
▪ Two months later, when the researchers went back to look for the megaplume, it had disappeared without a trace.
▪ That way they would disappear without trace.
▪ Hundreds of people disappeared without trace every year.
▪ Just about everyone hoped they would disappear without trace when that tide ebbed and frenetic buying and selling ground to a halt.
▪ It is a bit more surprising, however, when that dealer disappears without a trace.
view
▪ Before afternoon, Treasure Island had disappeared from view, and I had never felt happier to leave a place behind.
▪ After twenty feet or so I turned to see his figure disappear from view.
▪ Muttering incomprehensibly, he made for some bushes where he disappeared from Emily's view.
▪ Then it struck the raft amidships and disappeared from view for a moment.
▪ He watched them disappear from his view, his father still waddling along with that bloody basket.
▪ Grover leaned back, disappearing from view as the gay yellow cab puttered away, its muffler clattering forlornly after it.
▪ The stream is fascinating, disappearing from view from time to time, to re-emerge from beneath road or path in an ever delightful manner.
▪ To do this she must have a concept that objects still exist after they disappear from view.
■ VERB
appear
▪ We saw the moon appear and disappear, veiled by clouds.
▪ They appeared and disappeared in the mist and were too far away to have seen us.
▪ Quantum mechanics depicts space as a seething foam of uncertainty, with unimaginably short-lived elementary particles appearing and disappear ing.
▪ Any spots showed themselves early, and they did not enlarge, contract, appear anew, or disappear.
▪ For a hundred years prior to 1924 the lake was present continually, and has appeared and disappeared again several times since.
▪ My knees appeared and disappeared in the mists rising from the tub.
▪ Much to the consternation of the operators, Humphrey's shabby figure would appear and then disappear into high-speed machinery.
▪ But informal, ad hoc networks may then appear and disappear as the net is rearranged.
seem
▪ At one point the bag rose so high it seemed to disappear into the night.
▪ He swung his legs over the windowsill and for an instant his torso seemed to disappear into the darkness inside.
▪ This possible restraint seems to have disappeared.
▪ Boundaries and standards seem to be disappearing.
▪ You can tell these mysterious trails were not made yesterday, because of the way they seem to disappear into thin air.
▪ Why do we need an All- Star Game now, when all the stars seem to be disappearing?
▪ The columbines seemed to have disappeared, and the delphiniums weren't ready yet.
▪ I looked down; the hooves seemed to be disappearing into a little mist which rose up everywhere around us.
watch
▪ She watched them disappear into one of the corridors that radiated from the chamber.
▪ I watched the procession disappear down the stairs.
▪ He watched them disappear from his view, his father still waddling along with that bloody basket.
▪ Valda watches him until he disappears into the dark woods behind the house.
▪ Well worth it ... She turned to watch him disappear down the ladder.
▪ It would be wonderful to rub some lotion on your thighs and watch your fat disappear.
▪ Marian leaned over the parapet; the rain, which still streamed down, was forgotten as she watched him rapidly disappear.
▪ As he watched, the engine disappeared into the earth.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
disappear/vanish from sight
▪ Then the plane vanished from sight on the radar screen.
▪ Here the linguistic cocoon is spun to such complexity that the characters and narrative structure sometimes vanish from sight.
▪ It disappeared from sight behind the slope of the hill.
▪ She vanished from sight, but Hippolytus, too, was gone.
▪ So, since he is disappearing from sight, he has dyed his hair black, eyebrows, too.
▪ The rest of us heard a thin squeak, and started calling for her as she had vanished from sight.
▪ The shore had vanished from sight.
▪ Within a few seconds it flew on again, vanishing from sight and hearing.
▪ Within seconds of the Wheel disappearing from sight the red glow was extinguished.
disappear/vanish from/off the face of the earth
disappear/vanish into thin air
▪ As happened during and after the first war of independence, the money has disappeared into thin air.
▪ It was almost as if he'd vanished into thin air.
▪ Maybe each and every one of them had vanished into thin air.
▪ The Cheshire cat is an odd character and he causes confusion when he literally disappears into thin air.
▪ The money which has suddenly and mysteriously become available simply vanishes into thin air as Ruggiero Miletti magically reappears.
▪ Victor and his kidnappers had disappeared into thin air.
▪ Yet he seemed to disappear into thin air.
▪ You can tell these mysterious trails were not made yesterday, because of the way they seem to disappear into thin air.
do a disappearing/vanishing act
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ "The Little Mermaid" video quickly disappeared from the stores.
▪ 13 year-old Nicola disappeared from her home on Saturday night.
▪ As the economy improves, workers fears of being laid off have disappeared.
▪ By the time of the trial, the tape had mysteriously disappeared.
▪ Drugs won't make the pain disappear altogether, but they will help.
▪ I thought I had a copy of the notes, but they seem to have disappeared somewhere.
▪ Once you start drinking too heavily, the beneficial effects of alcohol disappear.
▪ She watched the boat sail out to sea until it disappeared over the horizon.
▪ Sheila's car turned the corner and disappeared from view.
▪ Small companies will disappear by being merged into big ones.
▪ The dolphin has just about disappeared from the coasts of Britain.
▪ The letter had mysteriously disappeared from the file overnight.
▪ The parents of an art student who disappeared in the middle of his exams have made an emotional plea for him to come home.
▪ The scars will disappear in a year or two.
▪ The sun disappeared behind a cloud.
▪ Thousands of miles of rainforest are disappearing every year.
▪ When I turned round, I discovered the man had disappeared with my bag.
▪ Where are my keys? They seem to have disappeared.
▪ Your grief won't disappear overnight. It takes time to get over the death of someone close to you.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ At midnight the lights disappeared and Gilbert was gone; his Newfoundland project lay in neglect for three decades.
▪ But the urge to indulge, never rational, never completely disappears.
▪ Moran stayed in bed until late that day, disappearing silently into the fields after eating.
▪ More of you may be working a flexible schedule that means lunch has disappeared altogether.
▪ Of course nobody much resents the Bucks now, since they disappeared from national prominence almost as quickly as they arrived.
▪ She was taken aback to realise just how far her reservations about seeing him had disappeared.
▪ That way they would disappear without trace.
▪ They ended in a pair of green bronze doors, each so high that they disappeared into the gloom.