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Disappear vs Disapparate - What's the difference?

disappear | disapparate |

As verbs the difference between disappear and disapparate

is that disappear is to vanish while disapparate is to disappear (magically)

disappear

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • (label) To vanish.
  • (label) To make vanish.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1973, author=Joseph Heller, chapter=38 Kid Sister
  • , title= Catch 22: A Dramatization , genre=Fiction, publisher=Delacorte Press, passage="Did they disappear' him?" / "I don’t know." / "What will you do if they decide to ' disappear you?"}}
  • (label) To go away; to become lost.
  • *
  • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=8 , passage=I corralled the judge, and we started off across the fields
  • *{{quote-book, year=1927, author= F. E. Penny
  • , chapter=4, title= Pulling the Strings , passage=A turban and loincloth soaked in blood had been found; also a staff. These properties were known to have belonged to a toddy drawer. He had disappeared .}}

    Synonyms

    * (to vanish) dematerialize, vanish

    Antonyms

    * (to vanish) appear

    Anagrams

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    disapparate

    English

    Verb

    (disapparat)
  • To disappear (magically)
  • ... the simplest thing John Prescott could do, to help secure a fourth term for Labour, would be to disapparate , taking his fellow revenants with him. ( - The Observer)

    Usage notes

    The word was invented by J. K. Rowling in the Harry Potter books to describe a form of teleportation from one place to another, but in derived usage it often means just to disappear completely.