disappear

disappear
   1. to be murdered
   The implication is that the body is unlikely to be found:
    ... then he, Danny Lehman, might disappear for a period of thirty years, or he might disappear, period. (Erdman, 1987 — the alternatives were imprisonment or death)
   Also, rarely, incorrectly, as to murder:
    Similar vehicles, devoid of ornaments and license plates, prowl the streets at night, looking for subversivos to 'disappear'. (A Guetemalan I know claims that disappear was first used as a transitive verb in his country.) (R. Wright, 1989)
   2. to urinate
   Mainly female use. Women do not in fact vanish after telling you that they are going to disappear, but they pay a fleeting visit to a lavatory.

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