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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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vanishingly
English
Etymology
vanishing +? -ly
Adverb
vanishingly (not comparable)
- So as to vanish, or appear to vanish; especially, very small or rare.
- a vanishingly small object on the horizon
- 1996, Iain M. Banks, Excession
- When they weren't running ships, meddling with alien civilisations or planning the future course of the Culture itself, the Minds existed in those fantastic virtual realities, sojourning beyondward into the multi-dimensioned geographies of their unleashed imaginations, vanishingly far away from the single limited point that was reality.
Translations
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