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break |
to stop or disappear suddenly. [1/19 definitions] |
clear up |
of a rash or other skin disturbance, to disappear. [1/5 definitions] |
colony collapse disorder |
an event in which all or most of the worker bees of a hive disappear, leaving in the hive the queen, the immature bees, and some adult bees to care for the immature bees, and the honey. |
come out |
of a stain, to disappear. [1/5 definitions] |
die1 |
to fade away; gradually disappear (usually followed by "away", "down", or "out"). [1/4 definitions] |
die out |
to gradually disappear; fade. [1/2 definitions] |
disperse |
to cause to disappear, as though by being driven away; dispel. [2/5 definitions] |
dissipate |
to cause to disappear by, or as though by, dispersing or dissolving. [2/4 definitions] |
dissolve |
to mix completely with liquid. [1/5 definitions] |
dive |
to plunge into something and disappear. [1/12 definitions] |
dry up |
(informal) to become nonexistent; disappear. [1/3 definitions] |
efface |
to cause to disappear; destroy. [1/3 definitions] |
evanesce |
to disappear like a vapor; vanish into nothing. |
evanescent |
tending to disappear like vapor; vanishing; fleeting. |
evaporate |
to disappear as if vaporized. [1/2 definitions] |
fade |
to disappear little by little. [1/2 definitions] |
get rid of |
to discard, remove, or make disappear (esp. something that is bad or considered to have no value). |
go down |
to disappear from sight below the horizon; set. [1/5 definitions] |
go up in smoke |
to end or disappear abruptly before a goal can be realized; fail to be carried out. |
lift |
to disappear or move away because of an upward force. [1/9 definitions] |
run out |
to disappear because of using or spending. [1/3 definitions] |
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