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• past tense form of disappear.
• past participle of disappear.

disappeared

American  

[dis-uh-peerd] / ˌdɪs əˈpɪərd /

adjective

1. having vanished from sight or existence.

   Right this minute, the only thing I want to do is to find a way to recover my disappeared phone photos.

   The museum displays tools and artifacts from an almost disappeared culture, known only from one archaeological site.

2. (of a person) having vanished under suspicious or unknown circumstances.

   Family members of the disappeared persons were denied the right to any effective remedy, including the right to know the fate of their loved ones.

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noun

(used with a plural verb)

1. none the disappeared people, especially political opponents, who have vanished under suspicious or unknown circumstances, or without due process of law.

   The determination of the parents, grandparents, and—most recently—children of the disappeared is finally putting dictators, torturers, and their accomplices behind bars.

verb

1. the simple past tense and past participle of disappear.

Etymology

Origin of disappeared

First recorded in 1400–50 as a verb: disappear ( def. ) + -ed ¹ ( def. ), and in 1640–50 as an adjective: disappear ( def. ) + -ed ² ( def. )

Example Sentences

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disappeared

The AI investment cycle has not suddenly disappeared just because the stocks stopped going straight up.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 22, 2026

Ortega, who made his wife Rosario Murillo co-president through a constitutional reform in 2025, appears to be in ill health, and has disappeared from view for months at a time.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026

The dance floor was not where the crisis disappeared.

From Salon ● Jul. 20, 2026

When the researchers removed NR4A1 from the cells, those protective effects disappeared.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 19, 2026

But he found traces of paths whenever the one we were on disappeared.

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith

Related Words

• absent
• adrift
• disoriented
• hidden
• invisible
• misplaced
• vanished