Meaning & use
Disappeared
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Ceased to be visible or to exist; vanished or went missing.
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The sun disappeared behind the clouds just as the picnic began.
Thousands of political dissidents disappeared during the dictatorship.
A note on using this word
In human-rights contexts, 'disappeared' is used transitively as a grim euphemism — to 'be disappeared' means to be secretly abducted by a government.
Words with a similar meaning
vanishedwent missing
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Words with an opposite meaning
appearedemerged
Another way to use it
2. verb
Was secretly abducted, imprisoned, or killed by state authorities, especially under an authoritarian regime.
Hundreds of activists were disappeared by the military junta in the 1970s.
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