Verb

(es)

To pass away; to come to naught; to waste away; to decay and disappear.

To die; to cease to live.

* 1719 ,

...the ship struck upon a sand, and ... the sea broke over her in such a manner that we expected we should all have perished immediately; and we were immediately driven into our close quarters, to shelter us from the very foam and spray of the sea.

(obsolete) To cause to perish.

(Francis Bacon)

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 .}}