disappear

Etymology

From Middle English disapeeren, equivalent to dis- + appear. Displaced native Old English fordwīnan.

verb

1. (intransitive) To vanish.
2. (intransitive) To go missing; to become a missing person.
   Eighteen years after Jaycee Dugard disappeared in 1991, she was found alive in the summer of 2009.
3. (intransitive) To go away; to become lost.
   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. 1927, F. E. Penny, chapter 4, in Pulling the Strings
4. (transitive, often euphemistic) To make vanish; especially, to abduct or murder for political reasons.
   The Chinese government is well-known for disappearing particularly vocal political dissidents.
   "Did they disappear him?" "I don’t know." "What will you do if they decide to disappear you?" 1973, Joseph Heller, “38 Kid Sister”, in Catch 22: A Dramatization (Fiction), Delacorte Press, archived from the original on 2016-03-05
   "It's such an honoring for Native people in this country, when we've been so disappeared and disregarded," Harjo says. 2019-06-19, Lynn Neary, Patrick Jarenwattananon, “Joy Harjo Becomes The First Native American U.S. Poet Laureate”, in npr