disappearとは

意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /dɪsəˈpɪə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /dɪsəˈpɪɹ/
• (Scotland) IPA^(key): /dɪsəˈpiːɹ/
• 韻: -ɪə(ɹ)

動詞

disappear (三人称単数 現在形 disappears, 現在分詞 disappearing, 過去形および過去分詞形 disappeared)

1. (intransitive) To vanish.

   Synonyms: dematerialize, vanish

   Antonym: appear

2. 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.
   • 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter 8, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., OCLC 222716698:

     I corralled the judge, and we started off across the fields […] . And thus we came by a circuitous route to Mohair, […] . My client welcomed the judge […] and they disappeared together into the Ethiopian card-room, which was filled with the assegais and exclamation point shields Mr. Cooke had had made at the sawmill at Beaverton.

   • 1927, F. E. Penny, chapter 4, in Pulling the Strings:

     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.

4. (transitive) To make vanish; especially, to abduct and murder surreptitiously for political reasons.
   • 1973, Joseph Heller, “38 Kid Sister”, in Catch 22: A Dramatization‎^[1] (Fiction), Delacorte Press, archived from the original on 2016-03-05:

     "Did they disappear him?"
     "I don’t know."
     "What will you do if they decide to disappear you?"

   • 2019 June 19, Lynn Neary; Patrick Jarenwattananon, “Joy Harjo Becomes The First Native American U.S. Poet Laureate”, in npr‎^[2]:

     "It's such an honoring for Native people in this country, when we've been so disappeared and disregarded," Harjo says.

関連する語

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