to reappear
- verb
- /ˌriːəˈpɪr/
- The magician made the rabbit reappear after it had vanished from the stage.
- disappear and reappear
- appear and reappear
- reappear briefly
It's just a man failing to reappear, that's all.
- It's just a man failing to reappear, that's all.
- There's a couple squirrels that appear and reappear in this book.
- But smallpox now reappears as a bio weapon.
- So this comes up very early in the work and reappears at a number of important points.
- So then after their break they reappear.
- Since you made that money, did you see a lot of friends reappear?
- But today, diseases we thought were gone seem to be reappearing.
- And I kind of lived with that till I almost died in COVID and it reappeared.
- These nightmarish things that reappear, that sort of haunt most of my novels.
- And then when you let go, that lens will reappear because you've added it to the mask to the selection.
Examples
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He appears, disappears, and reappears, anywhere.
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Look, if I do this, the sea monster will reappear.
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But as soon as I reappear, look at that.
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So if I go off the right hand side and reappear on the left, then the right and the left is the same.
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The vast majority of them reappear on their own, usually within a week.
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And I think this may reappear in the NASA plan at some point in the future.
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New infectious diseases appear or reappear every few years.
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So this comes up very early in the work and reappears at a number of important points.
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Two days after he vanished, he just reappeared.
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Miss Costello crosses into and out of view and reappears moments later next to the TV.
Fiction book (1990)
Synonyms
To return to how it was before
To come into view or become visible
To appear after being lost or when not expected
To appear again after being hidden or inactive
To appear again after being away or hidden
To appear again after being gone or invisible
To appear again in the game after being defeated
Antonyms
How Visible
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Reappear adds re- meaning 'again' to appear, which means 'to come into view'. So, reappear means 'to come into view again', which is why we use it when something shows up after being gone.