Dis’ap-pēar’, v. i.
v. i. [imp. & p. p. DISAPPEARED; p. pr. & vb. n. DISAPPEARING.] [Prefix dis and appear, q. v.]
Sense 1. To vanish from the sight; to pass from view; to become invisible; to cease to appear or to be perceived; to be no longer seen; as, darkness disappears at the approach of light; a ship disappears as she sails from port.
Sense 2. To cease to be or exist; to become merged or concealed in something else; as, the epidemic has disappeared; a trunk of a tree disappears upward by a continued subdivision into branches.