vanish

Definitions  ·  Examples  ·  Pronunciations  ·  Etymologies  ·  Related  ·  Statistics  ·  Comments (1)  · 
Must the vision of learned research and scholarly calm vanish, as cloistral peace, and chivalrous love and glory, had vanished before?

View all »
Definitions (22)

Toggle American Heritage definitions American Heritage Dictionary (3)

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

Toggle Century definitions Century Dictionary (12)

Toggle GNU Webster definitions GNU Webster's 1913 (2)

Toggle WordNet definitions WordNet (5)

Toggle elsewhere links Elsewhere on the web

View all »
Examples (50)

  • The weaker tribes would vanish, the stronger would amalgamate That process would take a lot of time," Stanton said Indeed! —  Anything You Can Do ...
  • Our fears seemed to vanish, and we commenced talking and anticipating what had happened. —  The Forest King Wild Hunter of the Adaca
  • He waited for the guard to vanish, and then went crawling forward. —  Police Your Planet
  • "Flee--vanish--and be cursed to ye--baith you and your doug thegither, ye infernal limmer! —  The Life of Mansie Wauch tailor in Dalkeith
  • If suddenly they should vanish, those stately young men and beautiful women whose flashing glances followed every one of his movements, so as to serve him straightway and carry out his orders, if they should vanish, the prince would feel more alone among the countless throngs of people than in a desert Eight negroes brought a litter adorned above the baldachin with ostrich feathers; the prince took his place in it, and advanced to the capital of Sochem, where he dwelt in a government palace The prince's stay in that province, which was only a few miles from Memphis, lasted a month. —  The Pharaoh and the Priest An Historical Novel of Ancient Egypt
 

Tags

vanish hasn't been tagged yet.

Sign up or sign in to add tags.

Stats

This word has been looked up 96 times.

On Twitter

Photos from

flickr images

Add a related word »
Related

Roget's II Roget's II: The New Thesaurus

Allen's Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms

Suggestions Wordniks Suggest

Used in the same context Used in the Same Context

Used in the same contextWord Family

vanish:   vanished ·  vanishing ·  vanishes
Roget's II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition by the Editors of the American Heritage® Dictionary. Copyright © 2003, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Etymologies (3)

Toggle American Heritage etymologies American Heritage Dictionary (1)

  1. 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; see euə- in Indo-European roots).

Toggle Century etymologies Century Dictionary (2)

  1. from Middle English vanisshen, vanischen, vaneschen, vanschen, from Old French vaniss- (stem of certain parts of *vanir = Italian vanire, present vanisco), from Latin vanescere, disappear, be in vain, from vanus, empty, vain: see vain.
  2. from vanish, v.
 

Pronunciations
Record your own »

/ˈvænɪʃ/
by American Heritage

Charts

frequency chart

Bubble size: how much this word was used in a year

Bubble height: used more or less than expected, vs. all uses evenly distributed

You can expect to see this word about twice a week.

Recently looked up

pervasive · myspace · Sioux · demonstrable · culminate

Recent Favorites

pygopagus · sanglant · Astacus · sweetbread · qualms

Recent Pronunciations

Der dicke Dachdecker deckte dir dein Dach, drum dank dem dicken Dachdecker, dass der dicke Dachdecker dir dein Dach deckte. · weitläufig · und wenn sie nicht gestorben sind, so leben sie noch heute · redescheu · selbstverständlich