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Vanish
Definitions
- 1 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."
- 2 A magic trick in which something seems to disappear.
"The French drop is a well-known vanish involving sleight of hand."
- 3 A disappearance; a vanishment.
- 1 To become invisible or to move out of view unnoticed. intransitive
"Holly, mistletoe, red berries, ivy, turkeys, geese, game, poultry, brawn, meat, pigs, sausages, oysters, pies, puddings, fruit, and punch, all vanished instantly."
- 2 decrease rapidly and disappear wordnet
- 3 To become equal to zero.
"The function f such as f(x)#61;x² vanishes at x#61;0."
- 4 get lost, as without warning or explanation wordnet
- 5 To disappear; to kidnap. transitive
"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."
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- 6 cease to exist wordnet
- 7 pass away rapidly wordnet
- 8 become invisible or unnoticeable wordnet
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”). Doublet of evanesce. Displaced native Old English cwincan, whose causative persists as quench (“put out (fire)”).
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. Displaced native Old English cwincan, whose causative persists as quench (“put out (fire)”).
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