Disappear vs Appear - What's the difference?
disappear | appear | Antonyms |
(label) To vanish.
(label) To make vanish.
* {{quote-book, year=1973, author=Joseph Heller, chapter=38 Kid Sister
, title= (label) To go away; to become lost.
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, passage=I corralled the judge, and we started off across the fields
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, chapter=4, title= (label) To come or be in sight; to be in view; to become visible.
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, author=(Jeremy Bernstein), volume=100, issue=2, page=146, magazine=(American Scientist)
, title= (label) To come before the public.
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, title=
, chapter=2 (label) To stand in presence of some authority, tribunal, or superior person, to answer a charge, plead a cause, or the like; to present one's self as a party or advocate before a court, or as a person to be tried.
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* (rfdate) (Thomas Babington Macaulay):
(label) To become visible to the apprehension of the mind; to be known as a subject of observation or comprehension, or as a thing proved; to be obvious or manifest.
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* (rfdate) (John Milton):
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=18 * {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=July-August, magazine=(American Scientist)
, author= To seem; to have a certain semblance; to look.
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* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=5
Appear is a antonym of disappear.
In intransitive terms the difference between disappear and appear
is that disappear is to go away; to become lost while appear is to become visible to the apprehension of the mind; to be known as a subject of observation or comprehension, or as a thing proved; to be obvious or manifest.disappear
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Verb
(en verb)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?"}}
F. E. Penny
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, vanishAntonyms
* (to vanish) appearAnagrams
*appear
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Verb
(en verb)- And Godthe dry land appear .
A Palette of Particles, passage=There were also particles no one had predicted that just appeared . Five of them […, i]n order of increasing modernity, […] are the neutrino, the pi meson, the antiproton, the quark and the Higgs boson.}}
citation, passage=Miss Phyllis Morgan, as the hapless heroine dressed in the shabbiest of clothes, appears in the midst of a gay and giddy throng; she apostrophises all and sundry there, including the villain, and has a magnificent scene which always brings down the house, and nightly adds to her histrionic laurels.}}
- We must all appear before the judgment seat.
- One ruffian escaped because no prosecutor dared to appear .
- It doth not yet appear what we shall be.
- Of their vain contest appeared no end.
citation, passage=‘Then the father has a great fight with his terrible conscience,’ said Munday with granite seriousness. ‘Should he make a row with the police […]? Or should he say nothing about it and condone brutality for fear of appearing in the newspapers?}}
Philip J. Bushnell, title=
Solvents, Ethanol, Car Crashes & Tolerance, passage=Surprisingly, this analysis revealed that acute exposure to solvent vapors at concentrations below those associated with long-term effects appears to increase the risk of a fatal automobile accident. Furthermore, this increase in risk is comparable to the risk of death from leukemia after long-term exposure to benzene,
- They disfigure their faces, that they may appear unto men to fast.
citation, passage=Mr. Campion appeared suitably impressed and she warmed to him. He was very easy to talk to with those long clown lines in his pale face, a natural goon, born rather too early she suspected.}}