[ US /ˈvænɪʃ/ ]
[ UK /vˈænɪʃ/ ]
VERB
  1. become invisible or unnoticeable
    The effect vanished when day broke
  2. pass away rapidly
    Time flies like an arrow
    Time fleeing beneath him
  3. decrease rapidly and disappear
    all my stock assets have vaporized
    the money vanished in las Vegas
  4. get lost, as without warning or explanation
    He disappeared without a trace
  5. cease to exist
    An entire civilization vanished
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How To Use vanish In A Sentence

  • He vanished from the scene, to materialize presently in front of the door.
  • Along the rocky paths Buddhist monks appear like ghosts and vanish mysteriously into the trees.
  • Officers had been shown a dirty white T-shirt which he said he had worn on the day his girlfriend vanished.
  • This vanishing reflects both the culture's increasing intolerance of sentimentalism and mainstream comics' marginalizing of women readers.
  • The awkwardness between them soon vanished when they began laughing and mocking the poorly produced film.
  • Vanishing, with a quick flirt of gingham apron-strings, she reappeared in considerably less than a "trice" as a fluffy Strictly business: more stories of the four million
  • The last Mariposa lily vanished from the burnt grasses as the California Indian summer dreamed itself out in purple mists on the windless air. CHAPTER XXXVI
  • None rested quiet or mute for a second, except the one who kept close as his shadow to her father's side, and unwittingly was treated by him less like the other children, than like some stray spirit of another world, caught and held jealously, but without much outward notice, lest haply it might take alarm, and vanish back again unawares. John Halifax, Gentleman
  • He pictured the dim room with the revolving spheres, and the orb in the centre, its many facets coruscating with vanishing light. THE GREENSTONE GRAIL: THE SANGREAL TRILOGY ONE
  • Many of the ranchers themselves see all this tourism as a cheeky attempt to commercialise a real and vanishing culture.
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