Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To pass out of sight, especially quickly; disappear. synonym: disappear.
- intransitive verb To pass out of existence.
- intransitive verb Mathematics To become zero. Used of a function or variable.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To disappear quickly; pass from a visible to an invisible state; become imperceptible.
- To pass out of view; pass beyond the limit of vision; disappear gradually; fade away.
- To pass away; be annihilated or lost; be no more.
- To rise or be given off, as breath; exhale.
- In mathematics, to become zero.
- noun In phonetics, a sound with which another principal sound vanishes or ends, as the ē-sound of ā (the i in ei as pronounced in veil), or the ö-sound of ō (the u in ou as pronounced in soul).
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Phon.) The brief terminal part of a vowel or vocal element, differing more or less in quality from the main part.
- intransitive verb To pass from a visible to an invisible state; to go out of sight; to disappear; to fade.
- intransitive verb To be annihilated or lost; to pass away.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To become
invisible or to move out ofview unnoticed . - verb mathematics To become
equal tozero . - noun phonetics The brief
terminal part of avowel or vocal element, differing more or less in quality from the main part.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb cease to exist
- verb become invisible or unnoticeable
- verb pass away rapidly
- verb decrease rapidly and disappear
- verb get lost, as without warning or explanation
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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One bad ancestor and genes take a while to vanish from the blood line ... frank, NC
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As soon as the years begin to take a sufficiently obvious toll, she will vanish from the wingnut radar, to be replaced with some other newly discovered “cutie” who is as equally vapid and devoid of anything which might, by some reckless stretch of the imagination, ever be mistaken for principled ethics.
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The repulsion or discomfort is triggered when we see this because those who did not feel any repulsion or discomfort from blood have had their DNA vanish from the gene pool because they died before they were able to reproduce.
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Pulled into a fantastic life of misunderstood sideshow freaks and creatures of the night, one teen will vanish from the safety of a boring existence and fulfill his destiny in a place drawn from nightmares.
VAMPIRE MANIA AND VAMPIRES GIVEAWAY! | Open Society Book Club Discussions and Reviews 2009
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I did my thousand words a day, travelling or stopping over, suffered my last faint fever shock, saw my silvery skin vanish and my sun-torn tissues healthily knit again, and drank as a broad-shouldered chesty man may drink.
Chapter 33 2010
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The repulsion or discomfort is triggered when we see this because those who did not feel any repulsion or discomfort from blood have had their DNA vanish from the gene pool because they died before they were able to reproduce.
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There, Ed, you can give one last wail about being called a racist and vanish from the thread.
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There, Ed, you can give one last wail about being called a racist and vanish from the thread. joe from Lowell says:
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And the print won't vanish from the pages while I sleep at the click of a cursor when some agency decides they're politically inconvenient, or because they merely 'rent' the content and have the right to reclaim it for greater profit.
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Pulled into a fantastic life of misunderstood sideshow freaks and creatures of the night, one teen will vanish from the safety of a boring existence and fulfill his destiny in a place drawn from nightmares.
VAMPIRE MANIA AND VAMPIRES GIVEAWAY! | Open Society Book Club Discussions and Reviews 2009
reesetee commented on the word vanish
from the now obsolete "evanish"
March 7, 2007