disappear from (something)

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disappear from (something)

1. To become no longer visible. I watched Jill's car drive away until it disappeared from view.

2. To become missing from some place, as if having been removed or become lost (usually to someone's surprise or confusion). I would give you my stapler, but it seems to have disappeared from my desk. That poor little girl disappeared from that school back in the 80s and was never found.

disappear from something

to vanish from something or some place, especially from sight, view, or the face of the earth; to have been taken away from something. Jack disappeared all of a sudden last week, as if from the face of the earth. The car pulled away and disappeared from sight down the road.

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The man who wrote that word upon the wall disappeared from the midst of the generations of man many centuries ago; the word, in its turn, has been effaced from the wall of the church; the church will, perhaps, itself soon disappear from the face of the earth.

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Look here, I'm thinking of this, I'M THINKING OF WHAT I MIGHT THINK if, like last time, after my spending the evening alone with you, you brought me home and if, at the moment of parting, I perceived that twenty-thousand francs had disappeared from my coat-pocket.

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Only -- the felucca had disappeared from the surface of the sea and Groslow and his three sailors were consumed.

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a despatch-boat belonging to the Federal navy, which the government had placed at their disposal; and, getting up steam, the banks of Louisiana speedily disappeared from sight.

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The country's investigative committee has opened a criminal case into the crash of the plane, which disappeared from radar early Sunday after taking off from Sochi.

Russian Defense Ministry's Plane Crashes Over Black Sea

National carrier EgyptAir have revealed that on Thursday, a flight from Paris to Cairo had disappeared from radar before entering Egyptian airspace, according to a report by Reuters.

Egyptair says Paris-Cairo flight has \"disappeared\"

We are staging our meeting lest no more people like Fehmi Tosun would not to be disappeared from his home.

500th meeting of Saturday Mothers held in Galata Square

According to the record of the law enforcement agencies, 75 persons disappeared from the ICT, 153 Punjab, 98 Sindh, 34 KPK and 21 from Balochistan.

93 disappeared persons traced by law enforcement agencies: Nisar

CHARLES Armstrong Father of five who disappeared from Co Armagh in 1983.

DIG FOR IRA VICTIM BEGINS AFTER 30YRS; Brother's hope of finding Disappeared Gerard's body

1 but that there were no indications of trouble until the 737 disappeared from ATC radar shortly after 2 p.

Travel Safety Update

Jones, a flight surgeon, was aboard an F-4 Phantom that disappeared from radar as it approached Da Nang Air Base in Vietnam on Nov.

Every day is POW-MIA recognition for families

At one point, Shawn Norwood drove Everett to her mother's home in Sacramento, but she disappeared from there and showed up back at the Norwood home, the grandmother said.

MISSING 3-YEAR-OLD GIRL FOUND

Cells marked with the protein disappeared from the healing wounds within weeks.

Marrow cells take up residence in wounds

Joseph Edward McPartlin, 65, disappeared from his Moffat Road home in Hartlepool, last Sunday.

Hunt for missing man, 65

From the fun- loving teenager to the favourite granny, the devoted daughter to the strapping sailor, they never disappeared from the hearts of those they left behind.