Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who disappears or vanishes.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a person who disappears
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Examples
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I need a vanisher, banisher to rid me of this… I pointed to my ear.
Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009
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I need a vanisher, banisher to rid me of this… I pointed to my ear.
Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009
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I need a vanisher, banisher to rid me of this… I pointed to my ear.
Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009
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Nancy Pelosi is apparently the worst vanisher ever.
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There followed a number of most interesting cases and an elaborate argument by the writer to show that Betty Blackwell was a victim of this psychological aberration, that she was, in other words, "a vanisher."
The Ear in the Wall 1908
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The headshakes were heavier and the sighs sharper for another slim shade, one of the younger and I believe quite the most hapless of those I have called the outstanding ones; he too, several years older than we again, a tormenting hoverer and vanisher; he too charmingly sister'd, though sister'd only, and succumbing to monstrous early trouble after having "shown some talent" for music.
A Small Boy and Others Henry James 1879
yarb commented on the word vanisher
'He placed the bills in his left hand, slipping them into the vanisher. "Blow on the hand-" The vanisher, released, thudded softly against his hip under his coat. "Lo and behold! Gone!"'
- Nightmare Alley, William Lindsay Gresham
June 30, 2012