disappear
动词 v.
英 /dɪsəˈpɪə/
美 /dɪsəˈpɪɹ/
英文释义
动词 v.
- To vanish.
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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.
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To go away; to become lost.
— I corralled the judge, and we started off across the fields[…]. And thus we came by a circuitous route to Mohair,[…]. My client welcomed the judge […] and they disappeared together into the Ethiopian card-room, which was filled with the assegais and exclamation point shields Mr. Cooke had had made at the sawmill at Beaverton.
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To make vanish; especially, to abduct or murder for political reasons.
— The Chinese government is well-known for disappearing particularly vocal political dissidents.
词汇关系
词源
From Middle English disapeeren, equivalent to dis- + appear. Displaced native Old English fordwīnan.
Displaced native Old English cwincan, whose causative persists as quench (“put out (fire)”).
Displaced native Old English cwincan, whose causative persists as quench (“put out (fire)”).
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