Etymology, English, Disappear

Etymology

From Middle English disaperen, dysapeeren, disapeeren, equivalent to dis– +‎ appear.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /dɪsəˈpɪə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /dɪsəˈpɪɹ/
• (Scotland) IPA^(key): /dɪsəˈpiːɹ/

Verb

disappear (third-person singular simple present disappears, present participle disappearing, simple past and past participle disappeared)

1. (intransitive) To vanish.
2. 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) To make vanish; especially, to abduct and murder surreptitiously for political reasons.