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vanish
English
Etymology
Aphetic for obsolete evanish, from Middle English vanyshen, evaneschen, from Old French esvanir, esvaniss- (modern French évanouir), from Vulgar Latin *exvanire (“to vanish, disappear, to fade out”), from Latin evanescere, from vanus (“empty”).
Pronunciation
- enPR: v?n'?sh, IPA(key): /?væn??/
- Rhymes: -æn??
- Hyphenation: van?ish
Verb
vanish (third-person singular simple present vanishes, present participle vanishing, simple past and past participle vanished)
- To become invisible or to move out of view unnoticed.
- The Bat—they called him the Bat. Like a bat he chose the night hours for his work of rapine; like a bat he struck and vanished, pouncingly, noiselessly; like a bat he never showed himself to the face of the day.
- (mathematics) To become equal to zero.
- (transitive) to disappear; to kidnap
- 2011, Patrick Meaney, Our Sentence Is Up: Seeing Grant Morrison's the Invisibles, Sequart (?ISBN), page 330:
- And as if to prove it, one of his friends was vanished and was never seen again. The guy got in a taxi one night, and no one ever saw him ever again.
- 2004, John Varley, The John Varley Reader, Penguin (?ISBN)
- It was whispered that men had been “vanished” by the Line and returned everted. Turned inside out.
- 2011, Patrick Meaney, Our Sentence Is Up: Seeing Grant Morrison's the Invisibles, Sequart (?ISBN), page 330:
Synonyms
- disappear
Derived terms
- vanishing point
- vanishing spray
Related terms
- vain
Translations
Noun
vanish (plural vanishes)
- (phonetics) The brief terminal part of a vowel or vocal element, differing more or less in quality from the main part.
- 1827, James Rush, The Philosophy of the Human Voice
- The median stres may also on a protracted quantity , slightly resemble respectively that of the radical and of the vanish , by sudenly enlarging in the course of the prolongation and gradualy diminishing ; and by the reverse
- 1827, James Rush, The Philosophy of the Human Voice
- A magic trick in which something seems to disappear.
See also
- glide
Anagrams
- shavin'
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dwindle
English
Etymology
Frequentative form of dwine, from Middle English dwinen, from Old English dw?nan (“to waste away”), equivalent to dwine +? -le, akin to Old Norse dvena/dvína (Danish tvine (“to pine away”), Dutch verdwijnen (“to disappear, dwindle”).
Pronunciation
- (UK, US) IPA(key): /?dw?n.d?l/
- Rhymes: -?nd?l
Verb
dwindle (third-person singular simple present dwindles, present participle dwindling, simple past and past participle dwindled)
- (intransitive) To decrease, shrink, diminish, reduce in size or intensity.
- 1802, T. Paynell (translator), Erasmus, The Complaint of Peace
- [E]very thing that was improving gradually degenerates and dwindles away to nothing, […]
- 1802, T. Paynell (translator), Erasmus, The Complaint of Peace
- (intransitive, figuratively) To fall away in quality; degenerate, sink.
- 1766, Oliver Goldsmith, Vicar, III
- The flattery of his friends began to dwindle into simple approbation.
- 1919, Boris Sidis, The Source and Aim of Human Progress
- The larger the empire, the more dwindles the mind of the citizen.
- 1766, Oliver Goldsmith, Vicar, III
- (transitive) To lessen; to bring low.
- Our drooping days are dwindled down to nought.
- To break up or disperse.
Derived terms
Translations
References
Anagrams
- windled
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