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- DictionaryVan·ish/ˈvaniSH/
verb
- 1. disappear suddenly and completely: "Mary vanished without a trace"
- 2. become zero.
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to disappear suddenly: The sun vanished behind the trees. The report mysteriously vanished from the files. See also. disappear/vanish into thin air. (Definition of vanish from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
Vanish definition: . See examples of VANISH used in a sentence.
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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”). Doublet of evanesce.
enPR: văn'ĭsh, IPA(key): /ˈvænɪʃ/Rhymes: -ænɪʃHyphenation: van‧ishvanish (third-person singular simple present vanishes, present participle vanishing, simple past and past participle vanished) 1. To become invisible or to move out of view unnoticed. 1.1. 1843 December 19, Charles Dickens, “Stave Three. The Second of the Three Spirits.”, in A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas, London: Cha...
vanish (plural vanishes) 1. (phonetics) The brief terminal part of a vowel or vocal element, differing more or less in quality from the main part. 1.1. a as in ale ordinarily ends with a vanishof i as in ill. 1.2. o as in old ordinarily ends with a vanishof oo as in foot. 1.1. 1827, James Rush, The Philosophy of the Human Voice: 1.1.1. The median s...
vanishes. The faint last part of any of certain diphthongs, as the sound like a faint (ē) ending the diphthong in boy. (phonetics) The brief terminal part of a vowel or vocal element, differing more or less in quality from the main part. A as in ale ordinarily ends with a vanish of i as in ill.
VANISH meaning: 1 : to disappear entirely without a clear explanation; 2 : to stop existing.
become invisible: The magician made the coin vanish before our eyes. to go away, esp. secretly or without being noticed: The thief vanished in the night. to come to an end: His anger vanished and he burst out laughing.
