disappearance

disparition

Fait que quelqu’un ou quelque chose devient introuvable, s’en va ou cesse d’exister.

En anglais simple : An event in which someone or something goes missing, goes away, or stops existing.

• Nobody could explain his disappearance.
• Police investigated the disappearance of two children.
• The disappearance of local shops has changed the town.

Comment l'utiliser : disappearance of someone/something (Police are investigating the disappearance of a young woman.)

Synonymes : vanishing

Contraires : appearance

Expressions courantes : sudden disappearance, mysterious disappearance, disappearance of something, gradual disappearance

disparition

Moment ou processus par lequel quelqu’un ou quelque chose cesse d’être visible.

En anglais simple : The moment or process of becoming impossible to see.

• We watched the ship’s disappearance into the fog.
• Her disappearance behind the curtain ended the scene.
• The moon’s disappearance behind clouds left us in darkness.

Comment l'utiliser : disappearance behind something (We watched the sun’s disappearance behind the hills.)

Synonymes : vanishing

Contraires : appearance

Expressions courantes : disappearance from view, disappearance behind something