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dis-appearance
| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | vanishing |
| Synonyms: | ceasing to exist, decline and fall, dematerialization, departure, desertion, disappearing act, disintegration, dispersal, dissipation, dissolution, ebbing, eclipse, escape, evanescence, evaporation, exit, exodus, fading, flight, going, loss, melting, passing, receding, recession, removal, retirement, wane, wearing away, withdrawal |
| Antonyms: | appearance, arrival, coming, entrance |
| Main Entry: | escape |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | breaking away; getaway |
| Synonyms: | AWOL, abdication, avoidance, beat, bolt, break, breakout, bypassing, circumvention, decampment, deliverance, departure, desertion, disappearance, dodging, ducking, elopement, elusion, elusiveness, eschewal, evasion, evasiveness, extrication, fadeout, flight, freedom, hegira, lam, leave, liberation, out, outbreak, powder, release, rescue, retreat, runaround, shunning, sidestepping, slip, spring, withdrawal |
| Antonyms: | capture, maintenance, stay |
| Main Entry: | evaporation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | drying up; dissolution |
| Synonyms: | dehydration, dematerialization, desiccation, disappearance, dispelling, dispersal, dissipation, escape, evanescence, fading, melting, vanishing, vaporescence, vaporization |
| Antonyms: | dampening, soaking, wetting |
| Main Entry: | loss |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | misfortune, deficit; something misplaced or lost |
| Synonyms: | accident, bad luck, bereavement, calamity, casualty, cataclysm, catastrophe, cost, damage, death, debit, debt, defeat, deficiency, depletion, deprivation, destitution, destruction, detriment, disadvantage, disappearance, disaster, dispossession, failure, fall, fatality, forfeiture, harm, hurt, impairment, injury, losing, misadventure, mishap, mislaying, misplacing, need, perdition, privation, retardation, ruin, sacrifice, shrinkage, squandering, trial, trouble, undoing, want, waste, wreckage |
| Antonyms: | accomplishment, achievement, success, win |
| Main Entry: | wear |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | use, corrosion |
| Synonyms: | abrasion, attrition, damage, depreciation, deterioration, dilapidation, diminution, disappearance, employment, erosion, friction, impairment, inroads, loss, mileage, service, usefulness, utility, waste, wear and tear |
| Notes: | ware is an item bought or a piece of pottery; wear is erosion; and where is a place |
| Main Entry: | evanescence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | dissipation |
| Synonyms: | disappearance, evaporation, vanishing |
| Main Entry: | lam |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | escape |
| Synonyms: | AWOL, abdication, avoidance, beat*, bolt*, break, breakout, bypassing, circumvention, decampment, deliverance, departure, desertion, disappearance, dodging, ducking, elopement, elusion, elusiveness, escapement, eschewal, evasion, evasiveness, extrication, fadeout, flight, freedom, getaway, hegira, leave, liberation, out, outbreak, powder, release, rescue, retreat, runaround, shunning, sidestepping, slip*, spring, withdrawal |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | misplacement |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | loss |
| Synonyms: | accident, bad luck, bereavement, calamity, casualty, cataclysm, catastrophe, cost, damage, death, debit, debt, defeat, deficiency, depletion, deprivation, destitution, destruction, detriment, disadvantage, disappearance, disaster, dispossession, failure, fall, fatality, forfeiture, harm, hurt, impairment, injury, losing, misadventure, mishap, mislaying, misplacing, need, perdition, privation, retardation, ruin, sacrifice, shrinkage, squandering, trial, trouble, undoing, want, waste, wreckage |
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| Main Entry: | disappearance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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