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DISAPPEARING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The act of leaving secretly or without explanation
Synonyms:
disappearance; disappearing
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("disappearing" is a kind of...):
departure; going; going away; leaving (the act of departing)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "disappearing"):
vanishing (a sudden disappearance from sight)
Derivation:
disappear (get lost, as without warning or explanation)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb disappear
Context examples:
I left him then, still puffing at his black clay pipe, with the conviction that when I came again on the next evening I would find that he held in his hands all the clues which would lead up to the identity of the disappearing bridegroom of Miss Mary Sutherland.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
White Fang caught glimpses of it disappearing amongst the trees.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
“Excuse me, my dear fellow,” said he, as we watched the rear carriages of our train disappearing round a curve, “I am sorry to make you the victim of what may seem a mere whim, but on my life, Watson, I simply can’t leave that case in this condition.”
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He straightened up in time to see a dim form disappearing across the snow into the shelter of the dark.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
It would strike him that in disappearing he might throw all pursuit off his track, and at the same time have an ample and crushing revenge upon his old sweetheart, if he could give the impression that he had been murdered by her only child.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Then there came a time when the grey cub no longer saw his father appearing and disappearing in the wall nor lying down asleep in the entrance.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
Bill had already gone from sight; but now and again, appearing and disappearing amongst the underbrush and the scattered clumps of spruce, could be seen One Ear.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
His father (he had already come to recognise his father as the one other dweller in the world, a creature like his mother, who slept near the light and was a bringer of meat)—his father had a way of walking right into the white far wall and disappearing.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
Tom and I shook hands, the rest of us exchanged a cool nod and they trotted quickly down the drive, disappearing under the August foliage just as Gatsby with hat and light overcoat in hand came out the front door.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
