Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One who disappears or vanishes.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a person who disappears
Examples
“I need a vanisher, banisher to rid me of this… I pointed to my ear.”
“Nancy Pelosi is apparently the worst vanisher ever.”
“There followed a number of most interesting cases and an elaborate argument by the writer to show that Betty Blackwell was a victim of this psychological aberration, that she was, in other words, "a vanisher.”
“The headshakes were heavier and the sighs sharper for another slim shade, one of the younger and I believe quite the most hapless of those I have called the outstanding ones; he too, several years older than we again, a tormenting hoverer and vanisher; he too charmingly sister'd, though sister'd only, and succumbing to monstrous early trouble after having "shown some talent" for music.”
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Nightmare Alley
From the novel by William Lindsay Gresham
geek, mark, rubber, calliope, booze-fool, rummy, the horrors, the crawling snakes, equalizer, bubbies, grubstake, softshoe and 99 more...
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yarb 'He placed the bills in his left hand, slipping them into the vanisher. "Blow on the hand-" The vanisher, released, thudded softly against his hip under his coat. "Lo and behold! Gone!"'
- Nightmare Alley, William Lindsay Gresham Jun 29, 2012