disappearing
present participle ofdisappear
| 单词 | disappearing |
| 释义 | disappearing present participle ofdisappear disappear verb[I] uk/ˌdɪs.əˈpɪər/us/ˌdɪs.əˈpɪr/B1 Ifpeopleor things disappear, they gosomewherewhere they cannot beseenorfound: Thesearchwas called off for thesailorswho disappeared in thestorm. I can'tfindmykeysanywhere- they'vecompletelydisappeared. Thesundisappearedbehindacloud. Welookedfor her but she had disappearedintothecrowd. Themovieis about agirlwhomysteriouslydisappeared while on apicnicat Hanging Rock. I don'tknowhow it'spossiblefor apersonto disappearwithouttrace. to disappear
B2 to nolongerexist: Theseflowersare disappearingfromourfieldsandwoods. This is a way oflifethat isfastdisappearing.
Losing and loss
Examplesofdisappearingdisappearing In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. With the end of the war, the volunteer army was swiftly reduced in size,disappearingentirely within a couple of years. From theCambridge English Corpus This once plentiful source of old lotus fruits is rapidlydisappearing. From theCambridge English Corpus Many habitats such as mangroves and wetlands aredisappearingfast. From theCambridge English Corpus We also recorded responses to the edge appearing anddisappearingwithout moving. From theCambridge English Corpus Canons, being brief, are often on unlabelled single leaves, easily mislabelled or misplaced and not infrequentlydisappearinginto private collections. From theCambridge English Corpus In contrast, audience memory becomes devalued as subjective, inaccessible, anddisappearing. From theCambridge English Corpus Firstly, our database also considers the pension plansdisappearingduring the time period analysed. From theCambridge English Corpus Disappearance was already there, sodisappearinginto the mirror makes sense. From theCambridge English Corpus The gains in the human rights arena may be fastdisappearingas the government closes on opposition groups. From theCambridge English Corpus It has been said that the symbolic association of old age itself with grandparenthood isdisappearing. From theCambridge English Corpus This type of space, it seems, is graduallydisappearingin the quest for development and economic efficiency. From theCambridge English Corpus In the cases under study here the problem of thedisappearingmiddle acquires a special importance. From theCambridge English Corpus Contemplation of the world'sdisappearingsupplies of minerals, forests, and other exhaustible assets has led to demands for regulation of their exploration. From theCambridge English Corpus Yet, in 1966, the middle ground within which such ambiguity was possible was fastdisappearing. From theCambridge English Corpus The history of the world is a history of armed struggles; the winners write history, while the losers riskdisappearingfrom the gene pool. From theCambridge English Corpus These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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