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Synonyms for disappear

18 synonyms
9 antonyms
2 meanings

verb

Most common

vanish fade dissolve go away evaporate melt

Synonyms by meaning

Verb

1. Vanish — to vanish

vanish, fade, dissolve, go away, dissipate, die, go, fail, perish, pass, walk informal, depart, dematerialize UK US, dematerialise UK, evanesce

2. Evaporate

evaporate, melt

Other

Antonyms

appear, emerge, materialize

All antonyms of disappear →

Definitions

v. 1
To vanish.
v. 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.

Related words

Word family: disappearance

Forms

Past participle: disappeared
e.g. disappeared → vanished, faded, dissolved, dissipated…

Example sentences

fade Relaxing with loved ones makes the tiredness fade.
dissolve Fadil brought enough acid to dissolve Layla's body.
vanish Trust seems to vanish when jealousy takes hold.
dissipate The fog started to dissipate about ten o'clock.

Popularity over time

Word	1850 → 2019	Trend
disappear		rising
fade		rising
dissolve		steady
vanish		steady
dissipate		steady
abscond		rising

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

By length

2 letters: go¹
3 letters: die¹
4 letters: walk¹, pass¹, fail¹, melt¹, fade¹
6 letters: depart², vanish², perish²
7 letters: abscond²
8 letters: dissolve², evanesce
9 letters: dissipate³, evaporate⁴
13 letters: dematerialize, dematerialise

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (depart² = 2 syllables).

In other languages

Français: disparaître
Italiano: sparire
Español: desaparecer
Deutsch: wegfallen
Català: desaparèixer