vanish
Pronunciation Verb
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Pronunciation Verb
vanish (vanishes, present participle vanishing; past and past participle vanished)
- To become invisible or to move#Verb|move out of view#Noun|view unnoticed.
- 1843 December 18, Charles Dickens, “Stave Three. The Second of the Three Spirits.”, in A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas, London: Chapman & Hall, […], OCLC 55746801 ↗, pages 79–80 ↗:
- Holly, mistletoe, red berries, ivy, turkeys, geese, game, poultry, brawn, meat, pigs, sausages, oysters, pies, puddings, fruit, and punch, all vanished instantly.
- 1920, Mary Roberts Rinehart; Avery Hopwood, chapter I, in The Bat: A Novel from the Play (Dell Book; 241), New York, N.Y.: Dell Publishing Company, OCLC 20230794 ↗, [https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.hwptej;view=1up;seq=5 page 01]:
- The Bat—they called him the Bat. Like a bat he chose the night hours for his work of rapine; like a bat he struck and vanished, pouncingly, noiselessly; like a bat he never showed himself to the face of the day.
- (mathematics) To become equal to zero.
- The function f(x)=x^2 vanishes at x=0.
- French: disparaître, s'évanouir
- German: verschwinden, vergehen, sich verflüchtigen
- Italian: sparire, svanire
- Portuguese: desaparecer, esvair, sumir
- Russian: исчеза́ть
- Spanish: desvanecerse, desaparecer
- French: s'annuler
- German: verschwinden
- Portuguese: anular-se
- Russian: обнули́ться
- Spanish: anularse
vanish (plural vanishes)
- (phonetics) 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.
- o as in old ordinarily ends with a vanish of oo as in foot.
- A magic trick in which something seems to disappear.
- The French drop is a well-known vanish involving sleight of hand.
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