Vanish meaning

văn'ĭsh
Vanish is defined as to disappear quickly.

An example of to vanish is for free food to disappear from a table in a room filled with college football players.

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To pass out of sight, especially quickly; disappear.
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To pass out of existence.

When the dinosaurs vanished from the earth.

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To go or pass suddenly from sight; disappear.
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To cease to exist; come to an end.
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To become zero.
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The faint last part of any of certain diphthongs, as the sound like a faint (ē) ending the diphthong in boy.
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To become invisible or to move out of view unnoticed.
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(mathematics) To become equal to zero.

The function f(x)=x^2 vanishes at x=0.

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(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.

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To become zero. Used of a function or variable.
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Origin of vanish

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 euə- in Indo-European roots)

Sentence Examples

  • Didn't he vanish somewhere?

  • And then all threads of hope will finally vanish from the fabric of my life.

  • Attacked in detail, they vanish one after another into as many teasing spectra of uncertainty.

  • It was plain that at the first revolutionary blast from without, or the first insurrectionary outburst from within, the " Bach System would vanish like a mirage.

  • Thus Russell's contradiction vanishes, and an examination of the other contradictions shows that they vanish also.

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