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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To pass out of sight, especially quickly; disappear. See Synonyms at disappear.
  2. v. To pass out of existence.
  3. v. Mathematics To become zero. Used of a function or variable.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To disappear quickly; pass from a visible to an invisible state; become imperceptible.
  2. To pass out of view; pass beyond the limit of vision; disappear gradually; fade away.
  3. To pass away; be annihilated or lost; be no more.
  4. To rise or be given off, as breath; exhale.
  5. In mathematics, to become zero.
  6. n. In phonetics, a sound with which another principal sound vanishes or ends, as the ē-sound of ā (the i in ei as pronounced in veil), or the ö-sound of ō (the u in ou as pronounced in soul).

Wiktionary

  1. v. To become invisible or to move out of view unnoticed.
  2. v. mathematics To become equal to zero.
  3. n. phonetics The brief terminal part of a vowel or vocal element, differing more or less in quality from the main part.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. To pass from a visible to an invisible state; to go out of sight; to disappear; to fade.
  2. v. To be annihilated or lost; to pass away.
  3. n. (Phon.) The brief terminal part of a vowel or vocal element, differing more or less in quality from the main part.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. cease to exist
  2. v. become invisible or unnoticeable
  3. v. pass away rapidly
  4. v. decrease rapidly and disappear
  5. v. get lost, as without warning or explanation

Etymologies

  1. Aphetic for obsolete evanish, from Middle English, from Old French esvanir, esvaniss- (French évanouir), Vulgar Latin evanescere, from vanus ("empty") (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English vanisshen, alteration of Old French esvanir, esvaniss-, from Vulgar Latin *exvanīre, alteration of Latin ēvānēscere : ē-, ex-, ex- + vānēscere, to vanish (from vānus, empty). (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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synonyms (11)

Words with the same meaning

  1. disappear
  2. fade
  1. melt
  2. evaporate
  1. fleet
  2. fly
  1. sink
  2. die
  1. die away
  2. die out
  1. vamose

antonyms (1)

Words with the opposite meaning

  1. appear

hypernyms (18)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. stop
  2. finish
  3. terminate
  1. cease
  2. end
  3. go by
  1. lapse
  2. elapse
  3. glide by
  1. slide by
  2. slip away
  3. slip by
  1. go along
  2. pass
  3. diminish
  1. fall
  2. lessen
  3. decrease

hyponyms (19)

Words that are more specific

  1. falloff
  2. fade
  3. remove
  1. blow over
  2. absent
  3. skip town
  1. pass
  2. fleet
  3. evanesce
  1. fall away
  2. die out
  3. wither
  1. die off
  2. take a powder
  3. fall
  1. die
  2. pass off
  3. desorb
  1. go

same context (19)

Words that are found in similar contexts

  1. harvest moon
  2. `appeased'.the
  3. cautiousness
  1. tobacco-box
  2. half-stifled
  3. anon
  1. 83-18
  2. armed
  3. half-century-old
  1. unlaid
  2. fellest
  3. clôture
  1. tim'rous
  2. write-in
  3. 42-day
  1. numberof
  2. barb'rous
  3. 27-6
  1. iconclasm

rhymes (4)

Words with the same terminal sound

  1. Spanish
  1. banish
  1. clannish
  1. spanish

reverse dictionary (43)

Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. die
  2. evanesce
  3. pass
  4. vanishing
  5. exhale
  6. fade
  7. faint
  8. evanescent
  1. evanid
  2. evanish
  3. disappear
  4. dispel
  5. disperse
  6. dissipate
  7. to go down the drain
  8. nullity of a determinant
  1. vade
  2. vanishingly
  3. whop
  4. glide
  5. exit
  6. trace element
  7. enlighten
  8. flee
  1. do
  2. fly
  3. plow
  4. dive
  5. dissolve
  6. evaporate
  7. fleet
  8. melt
  1. decoupage
  2. to pass away
  3. spend
  4. standing
  5. continuant
  6. evanescence
  7. method
  8. osculant
  1. zero
  2. tide
  3. wend

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  • reesetee from the now obsolete "evanish" Mar 7, 2007

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