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vanish

va·nish

UK/ˈvænɪʃ/ US/ˈvænɪʃ/ fairly common

verb

1.

get lost, especially without warning or explanation

  • “He disappeared without a trace”
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2.

become invisible or unnoticeable

  • “The effect vanished when day broke”
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3.

pass away rapidly

  • “Time flies like an arrow”
  • “Time fleeing beneath him”
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4.

cease to exist

  • “An entire civilization vanished”
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5.

decrease rapidly and disappear

  • “the money vanished in las Vegas”
  • “all my stock assets have vaporized”
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Origin

Aphetic for obsolete evanish, from Middle English evanisshen, esvanisshen, from Old French esvanir, esvaniss- (modern French évanouir), from Vulgar Latin *exvanire (“to vanish, disappear, to fade out”), from Latin ēvānēscō, ēvānēscere, from vānus (“empty”). By surface analysis, Latin vān- + -ish (“verb suffix”). Doublet of evanesce. Displaced native Old English cwincan, whose causative persists as quench (“put out (fire)”).

Phrases

  • angle of vanishing stability
  • Kodaira vanishing theorem
  • vanishing foam
  • vanishing fraction
  • vanishing ideal
  • vanishing point
  • vanishing spray
  • vanishing testes syndrome

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