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Surely you mean isn't a transitive verb? Anyway, it's rare but well attested: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=disappeared+it&year_start=1800&year_
by syllogism 13y ago
Surely you mean isn't a transitive verb? Anyway, it's rare but well attested: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=disappeared+it&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2Cdisappeared%20it%3B%2Cc0 https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=disappeared+it...
- DavidWoof 13y agoCheck the details on that ngram, it doesn't capture "disappeared" as a transitive verb. Virtually all the examples are variations on "Once the item had disappeared, it was never seen again."
- dragonwriter 13y ago“Disappeared” in the sense used here refers to domestic opponents being covertly kidnapped—and usually murdered—by their governments; a usage that originated in connection with Argentina's “Dirty War”, but which has been used for many other situations since. The use of “disappeared” this way here I would say I is very conscious commentary in itself.