Vanish

Definition: Vanish

Vanish

Verb

1. Get lost, esp. without warning or explanation; "He disappeared without a trace".

2. Become invisible or unnoticeable; "The effect vanished when day broke.

3. Pass away rapidly; "Time flies like an arrow"; "Time fleeing beneath him".

4. Cease to exist; "An entire civilization vanished".

5. Decrease rapidly, as of money.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "vanish" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Note: Vanish \Van"ish\, intransitive verb [imperfect & past participle. Vanished; Vanishing.]. (references)

Synonyms: Vanish

Age

Phrase: "give me a staff of honor for my age"; bis pueri senes; peu de gens savent elre vieux; plenus annis abiit plenus honoribus; "old age is creeping on apace"; "slow-consuming age"'; "the hoary head is a crown of glory"; "the silver livery of advised age"; to grow old gracefully; "to vanish in the chinks that Time has made".

Escape

Disappear, vanish.

Transientness

Verb: be transient; Adjective: flit, pass away, fly, gallop, vanish, fade, evaporate; pass away like a cloud, pass away like a summer cloud, pass away like a shadow, pass away like a dream.

Unsubstantiality

Verb: vanish, evaporate, fade, dissolve, melt away; disappear.

Crosswords: Vanish

Want to vanish inside your kiss, every day I'm loving you more and more (Moulin Rouge!; writing credit: Baz Luhrmann; Craig Pearce)

Aston Martin call it the Vanquish, we call it the Vanish. (Die Another Day; writing credit: Neal Purvis)

You could only whisper it. Anything more than a whisper and it would vanish, it was so fragile (Gladiator; writing credit: David Franzoni)

It will vanish one day, that's for sure (Ying huang boon sik; writing credit: Hing-Ka Chan; Suk-Wah Leung)

Pizza that vanish quickly without trace (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze; writing credit: Kevin Eastman; Peter Laird)

Or leave tonight and vanish up the shore (At The Stars; performing artist: Better Than Ezra)

They will vanish away like your daddy's best jeans (Oh Very Young; performing artist: Cat Stevens)

Vanish in the air you'll never find me (Wrapped Around Your Finger; performing artist: The Police)

Vanish (2001)

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Books

• Photoworks: When Pictures Vanish (reference)

• Sigmar Polke: Photoworks: When Pictures Vanish (reference)

• Take Up the Bodies Theater At the Vanish (reference)

• The Places Where Names Vanish (reference)

• Vanish (Insomniacs, 6) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Vanish into Blue (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

But his offspring having another way of entrance into the world, different from him, by a natural birth, that produced them ignorant and without the use of reason, they were not presently under that law; for no body can be under a law, which is not promulgated to him; and this law being promulgated or made known by reason only, he that is not come to the use of his reason, cannot be said to be under this law; and Adam's children, being not presently as soon as born under this law of reason, were not presently free: for law, in its true notion, is not so much the limitation as the direction of a free and intelligent agent to his proper interest, and prescribes no farther than is for the general good of those under that law: could they be happier without it, the law, as an useless thing, would of itself vanish; and that ill deserves the name of confinement which hedges us in only from bogs and precipices. (Second Treatise of Government)

The supremacy of the proletariat will cause them to vanish still faster. (reference)

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If her heart chance to come uppermost, they vanish.

Gratitude, duty, necessary and troublesome memories, vanish.

[The GHOSTS vanish.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "vanish": vanish from sight ♦ vanish into air ♦ vanish into the void ♦ vanish into thin air ♦ vanish off the face of the earth. Additional references.

Albanian

zhduket (disperse, dissipate, evanesce, evanish, evaporate, fade, flee), zhdukem (bugger off, die, disappear, fall away, go down the drain, grow dim, melt, merge, ooze, scram), shuhem (be dying, burn out, die, die out, evanesce, expire, fade, fade out, fizzle out, wear away, wear off, wither). (various references)

Arabic 

‏غاب (absent oneself), ‏تلاشى (disappear, dissolve, drain, evanesce, evaporate, fade, fall, flee, fly, go to pieces, melt, molder, moulder, pass out of sight, peter, trail), ‏زال نهائيا, ‏إختفى (die out, disappear, lapse, mask, sink, slide). (various references)

Bulgarian 

чезна (die away, diminish, fade, fade away, languish, peak and pine, pine, recede, tail away, trickle, wane, waste, wear away, wither), превръщам се в нула, постепенно се загубвам (trail), изчезвам внезапно, изчезвам (abscond, clear out, disappear, dissipate, evanesce, evanish, fall away, go, melt away, mosey, pass, pass away, pass off, shrink away, sweep away, tail, waste, wear out, whirl away, work off). (various references)

Chinese 

消失 (Disappear, Disappeared, Disappearing, Vanished, Vanishing), 冰釋 (be dispelled, disappear). (various references)

Czech

vyprchat (pass away), vymizet, zmizet (clear, clear off, come off, come out, decamp, disappear, drop out, make off, push off). (various references)

Farsi 

ناپدیدشدن (Disappear), غیب شدن , بخش ضعیف ونهان بعضی ازحرفهای صدادار. (various references)

Finnish

kadota (be lost, disappear), hävitä (disappear, incur a loss, lose), häipyä (fade). (various references)

French

se volatiliser sans laisser des traces, se dissiper, disparaître. (various references)

German

verschwinden (disappear, disappearance, get off, go, naff off, pop off, to disappear). (various references)

Greek 

εκλείπω (die out, disappear), εξαφανίζομαι (disappear, evanesce, melt away, pass off, start, to vanish, wear off). (various references)

Hebrew 

לחלוף (come anew, glide along, move past, pass, pass away, shave), ל�"תעלם (disregard, ignore, neglect, overlook, override, pass over), ל�"תעופף (fly, fly off, hurtle), ל�"ת� �"ף (be evaporated, disappear, evaporate), ל�"עלם (be gone, be hidden, disappear), לסוף (cease, perish). (various references)

Hungarian

láthatatlanná válik, eltûnik (disappear, pass off), elenyészik (to die down, to dissolve into thin air, to dwindle, to expire, to fade away, to peter out, to vanish, to wear off). (various references)

Indonesian

musnah (gone, perish), melenyap (disappear, fade away), lenyap, amblas (disappear). (various references)

Italian

svanire (be lost, disappear, dissolve, evanesce, expire, fade, melt away, recede), sparire (disappear, evanesce), sfumare (come in nothing, disappear, fade away, shade, tinge), scomparire (disappear), far sparire, dileguarsi, dileguare (disappear, disperse, fade away). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

消失 (die out, disappear). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

そうしつ (die out, disappear, forfeit, loss), しょうしつ (being destroyed by fire, die out, disappear). (various references)

Korean 

사라지십시�". (various references)

Manx

skellal roish (disappear, whip, whip as speed). (various references)

Pig Latin

anishvay.(various references)

Portuguese

desaparecimento (disappearance, dissipation, extinction, vanishing), desaparecer (burrow, disappear, evanish, evaporate, fall away, merge). (various references)

Romanian

tinde cãtre zero, se şterge (dim, fade), risipi (broadcast, cast away, chase, chuck away, clear, consume, crumble, disappear, dispel, disperse, dissipate, quiet, remove, repel, riot, scatter, settle, solve, spend, sprinkle, squander, strew, throw away, waste), eclipsa (blind, disappear, eclipse, efface, extinguish, obfuscate, outshine, overshadow, surpass), dispare, dispãrea (abscond, clear, decamp, die, disappear, dissolve, do a guy, drop off, evanesce, evaporate, fade away, flee, fly, get out of sight, go out of sight, pass away, peter out), deveni invizibil, şterge (abrade, annex, annihilate, annul, blot out, bunk, cancel, clean, cop, crib, decamp, deface, delete, dim, do a bunk, dry, dull, efface, erase, expunge, filch, guy, make away, make off, mop, obliterate, pack off, pack one's traps, pop off, quit, raze, remove, scratch, shrink away, strike out, sweep, wipe), împrãştia (bestrew, break, diffuse, dispel, disperse, disseminate, dissipate, distribute, effuse, exude, fling, propagate, scatter, shoot out, spill, split up, spread, sprinkle, straggle, strew, throw about). (various references)

Russian 

исчезать (die down, disappear, drop out, evanesce, evanish, evaporate, fall away, flee, go, pass off, self-destruct, slip). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

nestajati (disappear, peter, peter out), iščeznuti (disappear, dwindle, fade away, wear off). (various references)

Spanish

desaparecer (clear off, die, die away, die out, disappear, fade out, go away, go under, pass, pass away, peter out, wear off, work off). (various references)

Swedish

försvinna (be lost, begone, disappear, evanesce, go, hop, pass, pass away, wear away), förgå (disappear, elapse, pass away). (various references)

Turkish

yok olmak (clear away, disappear, dissolve, evanesce, evaporate, ooze away, perish), tarihe karışmak, sıfırlanmak, kayıplara karışmak (dissolve into thin air), gözden kaybolmak (disappear, evanesce, fade, fade away, whisk away). (various references)

Turkmen 

яitmek (disappear, go missing), яitirim bolmak (be lost, go missing), gьrьm-jьrьm bolmak (disappear). (various references)

Ukrainian

усувати (abolish, brush aside, castigate, depose, dethrone, displace, eliminate, obviate, preclude, put away, smooth, smooth away, take off), зникати (come off, die, die down, disappear, dispel, dissipate, evanish, go out of being, ooze, pass away, pass off, pass out, peter out, walk, wan, wear away). (various references)

Welsh

diflannu (disappear), difannu (disappear). (various references)

abeo, abolesco, aufugit, avolabunt, avolans, avolantes, avolare, avolaverunt, avolavit, effluant, effluere, effluerent, evanescere, evanuerit, evanuerunt, evanuit, supereffluentem. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "vanish": vanished, vanisher, vanishers, vanishes, vanishing, vanishingly. (additional references)

Words ending with "vanish": evanish. (additional references)

Words containing "vanish": evanished, evanishes, evanishing, nonvanishing. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Vanish" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Avinash, avish, dagnish, evenish, handsshh, haneish, hanish, Jaenisch, kanish, tanish, vainshi, Vanick, vanshi, vanus, venis, venise. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: savin, shiva, vinas.

-2 letters: ains, anis, hins, hisn, sain, shin, shiv, sinh, vain, vans, vina, visa.

-3 letters: ain, ais, ani, ash, has, hin, his, ins, nah, sha, sin, van, vas, via, vis.

-4 letters: ah, ai, an, as, ha, hi, in, is, na, sh, si.

+1 letter: evanish, knavish, shaving, vahines, varnish.

+2 letters: enravish, shavings, sheaving, vanished, vanisher, vanishes, vanquish, varnishy.

+3 letters: anchovies, evanished, evanishes, heaviness, knavishly, lavishing, ravishing, reshaving, shaveling, vanishers, vanishing, varnished, varnisher, varnishes.

+4 letters: chauvinism, chauvinist, enravished, enravishes, evanishing, hantavirus, harvesting, lavishness, leviathans, ravishment, revanchism, revanchist, shavelings, shinleaves, unravished, vanquished, vanquisher, vanquishes, varnishers, varnishing, vinegarish.

+5 letters: chauvinisms, chauvinists, enravishing, heavenliest, heavinesses, inchoatives, misbehaving, nonadhesive, ravishingly, ravishments, revanchisms, revanchists, shivareeing, slavishness, unvarnished, vagabondish, vanishingly, vanquishers, vanquishing, vibraphones, vouchsafing.