desaparecer — meaning in English

English meaning

• disappear verb To vanish from sight; to stop being visible.
• fade verb To gradually lose colour, brightness, strength, or intensity.
• go verb To move or travel from one place toward another.
• vanish verb To disappear suddenly, or to go out of sight without being noticed.

Senses

desaparecer is used for these senses in English:

• die out (idiomatic) To become extinct.
• disappear (intransitive) To vanish.
• disappear (transitive, often, euphemistic) To make vanish; especially, to abduct or murder for political reasons.
• fade (intransitive) To sink away; to disappear gradually; to grow dim; to vanish.
• go To turn out, to result; to come to (a certain result).
• go away To vanish or disappear.
• sod off (UK, Ireland, idiomatic, vulgar, colloquial, dismissal) Go away.
• vanish (intransitive) To become invisible or to move out of view unnoticed.

disappear — full definition

1. verb To vanish from sight; to stop being visible.
2. verb To go missing, especially suddenly and without explanation.
3. verb (transitive, informal) To make someone vanish, especially by abducting or killing them for political reasons.

fade — full definition

1. verb To gradually lose colour, brightness, strength, or intensity.
2. noun A haircut that is shaved very short at the sides and back, blending into longer hair on top.
3. noun A gradual dimming of picture or sound, often used to end a scene or song.

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