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• past participle of disappear.
• past tense form 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

The relentless positivity might serve as a corrective for a country where, for some, anger and disenchantment has come to overshadow everything, including an everyday decency that never actually disappeared.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 19, 2026

Global warming means that the smaller, low altitude glaciers they relied on to water their crops have disappeared.

From BBC • Jun. 18, 2026

Thankfully, the marine layer has not yet disappeared entirely.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 18, 2026

It was also a warning: Netscape lost the “browser wars” to Microsoft and soon disappeared.

From Barron's • Jun. 17, 2026

He disappeared through the double doors without looking back.

From "Bye Forever, I Guess" by Jodi Meadows

Related Words

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