Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Disappearance.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete Act of disappearing; disappearance.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete The act of disappearing;
disappearance .
Etymologies
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Examples
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So, if you are the kind of person who is tickled by the nod to Perec in the title Death: A User's Manual (used to refer, en passant, to one of Mount's novels) – and I confess that I am, particularly as Adair won the Scott Moncrieff prize for his incredible translation of Perec's E-less novel, La disparition – then you will enjoy And Then There Was No One hugely.
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Précision touristique supplémentaire: Ax demeure sous la coupe d'un des derniers représentants d'une race en voie disparition: l'ultra-socialiste radical Bonrepaux.
Ax-les-Thermes Etienne 2008
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Disons que je regrette dans la deuxieme la disparition du twist Tongue (tongue twist?) c'etait franchement plus drole que leurs acrobaties a deux balles!
pinku-tk Diary Entry pinku-tk 2008
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As done by Georges Perec in his 300 page novel La disparition.
Archive 2008-06-01 Bob Lock 2008
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As done by Georges Perec in his 300 page novel La disparition.
Science Fiction Convention Wales Bob Lock 2008
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Le réchauffement climatique provoque la fonte des glaces artiques et une possible disparition du Gulf Stream, aujourd'hui réponsable de notre climat tempéré.
Warm Winter and Oil Consumption - The Austrian Economists 2007
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Pour moi, ce n'est pas un phénomène de dissolution/disparition, mais plutôt de contamination.
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Pour ma part, étant très peu physionomiste, je regretterais la disparition des badges.
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Countenance whose disparition afflictedly fond Fuinn feels.
Finnegans Wake 2006
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Je laisse un message exprimant mon étonnement face à la disparition systématique de mes “contributions” au site.
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