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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

Sawfish may have already disappeared from Ghana's waters and wedgefish, another close relative, have become increasingly scarce.

From Barron's ● Jul. 23, 2026

A $150,000 award for text messages that disappeared.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026

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

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 22, 2026

The spokesperson added the intricate flower beds and pathways of the Great Parterre disappeared beneath a new landscape in the 1730s in changes introduced by William Cavendish, the third Duke of Devonshire.

From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026

It was then that I noticed that our audience had disappeared.

From "Glitch" by Laura Martin

Related Words

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