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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

Officials found few clues except a farmer on a neighboring ranch who said that he had seen two young men carrying long guns in the groves the day Pancho disappeared.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 6, 2026

And two years later, the court had to dismiss a case brought by an unrepresented petitioner after the petitioner disappeared.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 5, 2026

Dandia acknowledged Islamophobia had not disappeared, but he was optimistic about how far New York's Muslim community has come.

From Barron's ● Sep. 4, 2026

Stromatolites and microbial mats first appeared billions of years ago, but they have not disappeared.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 3, 2026

When Torak crawled stiffly from his sleeping-sack, the valley below had disappeared.

From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver

Related Words

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