nCOLLOCATIONS – Meaning 2: to be lost, or to become impossible to find
adverbs
simply disappear (=used to emphasize that it is very strange)
After two weeks it seemed that the boys had simply disappeared.
completely/totally disappear
My spectacles have completely disappeared again.
mysteriously disappear (=in a way that no one can explain)
Several reporters in the area have mysteriously disappeared.
suddenly disappear
The ship had suddenly disappeared in calm waters.
phrases
disappear without a trace (also disappear without traceBritish EnglishBrE) (=completely)
Hundreds of people disappear without trace every year.
disappear into thin air (=completely)
The money he made has disappeared into thin air.
THESAURUS
disappear if something disappears, you cannot see it any longer, or it does not exist any longer 消失,不见
The sun slowly disappeared over the horizon.
太阳慢慢地从地平线上消失了。
Millions of people saw their savings disappear.
数百万人眼看着自己的储蓄没有了。
n16% of the forest cover has disappeared during the last 100 years.
vanish to completely disappear, especially suddenly 〔尤指突然〕消失
The boat vanished without trace off the coast of Australia.
那艘船在澳大利亚海岸不远处消失得无影无踪。
All hopes of finding the boy alive have vanished.
男孩生还的希望全部破灭。
nThe fields have vanished beneath a new town of skyscrapers and motorways.
go away to stop existing – used about something bad such as a pain or a problem 〔疼痛或问题等〕消失
I wish this headache would go away.
我希望头痛会好起来。
I’m afraid the problem won’t just go away.
恐怕这个问题不会自行消失。
fade away to gradually become less clear, strong, or bright, and finally disappear 逐渐消失
Her voice began to fade away.
她的声音变得越来越轻。
His anger slowly faded away.
他的怒气渐渐消退。
nThe last rays of the evening sun were fading away.
melt away especially literary to disappear, especially gradually – used about feelings or groups of people 〔情感〕逐渐消失;〔人群〕逐渐散去
The crowd began to melt away.
人群开始散去。
His initial excitement had melted away.
他最初的兴奋感觉逐渐减退了。
die out to stop existing after gradually becoming more and more rare – used about a type of animal or plant, a disease, or a custom 〔某种动植物、疾病或习俗〕逐渐灭绝,消失
Wolves had died out in much of Europe.
在欧洲的许多地方狼已经灭绝。
Many of the old childhood diseases have almost died out.
过去的许多儿童疾病几乎都消失了。
become extinct if a type of animal or plant becomes extinct, it stops existing 〔动植物〕灭绝,绝种
Dinosaurs became extinct millions of years ago.
恐龙在数百万年前就绝种了。
nIf nothing is done to save the whales, they will soon become extinct.
Examples from the Corpus
disappear• Where are my keys? They seem to have disappeared.• But the urge to indulge, never rational, never completely disappears.• She was taken aback to realise just how far her reservations about seeing him had disappeared.• As the economyimproves, workersfears of being laid off have disappeared.• By the time of the trial, the tape had mysteriously disappeared.• Once you start drinking too heavily, the beneficial effects of alcoholdisappear.• Drugs won't make the pain disappearaltogether, but they will help.• More of you may be working a flexibleschedule that meanslunch has disappeared altogether.• At midnight the lights disappeared and Gilbert was gone; his Newfoundland project lay in neglect for three decades.• The sundisappearedbehind a cloud.• Small companies will disappear by being merged into big ones.• Thousands of miles of rainforest are disappearing every year.• 13 year-old Nicola disappeared from her home on Saturday night.• Of course nobody much resents the Bucks now, since they disappeared from nationalprominence almost as quickly as they arrived.• The dolphin has just about disappeared from the coasts of Britain.• The letter had mysteriously disappeared from the fileovernight.• "The Little Mermaid" video quickly disappeared from the stores.• Sheila's car turned the corner and disappeared from view.• The scars will disappear in a year or two.• The parents of an art student who disappeared in the middle of his exams have made an emotional plea for him to come home.• They ended in a pair of greenbronze doors, each so high that they disappeared into the gloom.• She watched the boatsail out to sea until it disappeared over the horizon.• Your grief won't disappear overnight. It takes time to get over the death of someone close to you.• Moran stayed in bed until late that day, disappearing silently into the fields after eating.• I thought I had a copy of the notes, but they seem to have disappeared somewhere.• When I turned round, I discovered the man had disappeared with my bag.• That way they would disappear without trace.
disappear altogether• And as that sense of independence grew, so the need I felt to control my weightsubsided and finally disappeared altogether.• But this collaboration of culture and nature also meant that females were on the verge of disappearing altogether.• He seems to have bloody well disappeared altogether.• More of you may be working a flexible schedule that means lunch has disappeared altogether.• Perhaps in time, if washed by tears, they will become indistinct and a few will disappear altogether.• Repeatedattempts to provoke an attack may cause the symptoms to disappear altogether.• Become a part of your local scene and it may well disappear altogether, except when your activities arousefriendly interest.• If you look too hard it disappears altogether into a kind of wistful, disappointed light in the night sky.
disappear without trace• Both car and occupants had disappeared without trace.• That way they would disappear without trace.• The abbeylies in ruinstoday and its celebratedrelic has disappeared without trace.• Without radio play, a record can disappear without trace.• Of the volemolars, 2 out of 18 split longitudinally, 12 disappeared without trace, and only 4 were left intact.• Two of them disappeared without trace as fast as they could.• Hundreds of people disappeared without trace every year.• Just about everyone hoped they would disappear without trace when that tideebbed and frenetic buying and selling ground to a halt.