disappear vs fade out

disappear

verb
  • To vanish. 

  • To make vanish; especially, to abduct and murder surreptitiously for political reasons. 

  • To go missing; to become a missing person. 

  • To go away; to become lost. 

fade out

verb
  • To slowly disappear. 

  • To fade from a cut to black in a movie. 

  • To decrease in volume, such as at the end of a song, until there is only silence. 

noun
  • A type of transition used in film, usually at the end of a scene, involving a fade to black from the cut. 

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