Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To vanish.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • intransitive verb To vanish.

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  • verb archaic, intransitive To vanish.

Etymologies

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e- + vanish: compare Latin evanescere. See evanesce, vanish.

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  • (Poetical): to disappear; vanish; cease to exist; disappear by imperceptible degrees.

    "Mine is the atom of clay for the grave,

    Ours is the Earth with hill, valley and wave:

    Mine will evanish like corpse in the sod,

    Ours will arise to the heaven, Oh God! -- Goodwyn Barmby

    (First stanza of the 5-stanza poem "Mine and Ours" in Douglas Jerrold's Shilling Magazine, published by The Punch Office, v.4, 1846 Jul-Dec, 1848)

    January 11, 2009