DISAPPEARING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does disappearing mean? 

• DISAPPEARING (noun)
  The noun DISAPPEARING has 1 sense:

1. the act of leaving secretly or without explanation

  Familiarity information: DISAPPEARING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DISAPPEARING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of leaving secretly or without explanation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

disappearance; disappearing

Hypernyms ("disappearing" is a kind of...):

departure; going; going away; leaving (the act of departing)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "disappearing"):

vanishing (a sudden disappearance from sight)

Derivation:

disappear (get lost, as without warning or explanation)

 Context examples 

While he was fighting off two or three, it was disappearing down the throats of the others.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

Her father's business was to announce James's being gone out to put the horses to, preparatory to their now daily drive to Randalls; and she had, therefore, an immediate excuse for disappearing.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

I could see Renfield's figure just disappearing behind the angle of the house, so I ran after him.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

On reaching the end of the Charlington grounds, he sprang from his machine and led it through a gap in the hedge, disappearing from my view.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I was still looking rather ruefully after the rapidly disappearing luggage-van which contained my wardrobe, when Holmes pulled my sleeve and pointed up the line.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Without thinking about it, he accepted this disappearing into the wall as a peculiarity of his father, as milk and half-digested meat were peculiarities of his mother.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

"I'll try," said Amy, for the advice suited her, and after a flurry to get ready, she ran after the friends, who were just disappearing over the hill.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

The debris from such a tidal disruption became very hot and produced X-rays before disappearing forever across the black hole's point of no return, or event horizon.

(NASA’s Chandra Detects Record-Breaking Outburst from Milky Way’s Black Hole, NASA)

She had Roman features and a double chin, disappearing into a throat like a pillar: these features appeared to me not only inflated and darkened, but even furrowed with pride; and the chin was sustained by the same principle, in a position of almost preternatural erectness.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The boat drew closer and closer, hurling along through the seething green like a thing alive, lifting and sending and uptossing across the huge-backed breakers, or disappearing behind them only to rush into sight again and shoot skyward.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)