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disappearing act

noun

Definitions

  1. A sudden disappearance

    A sudden disappearance; the act of leaving unexpectedly.

    • He suggested that we do a disappearing act some morning as soon as we got to the woods and he would make sure that the alarm would not be given […]
    • Onions do a disappearing act as they cook, shrinking about 80 percent of their volume.

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Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for disappearing act. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA