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disappearance

 noun
     
dis‧ap‧pear‧ance [uncountable and countable]
1 when someone or something becomes impossible to see or find:
Police are investigating the woman's disappearance.
2 when something stops existing [↪ extinction]:
the disappearance of ancient forests
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