vanish

van·ish

Use vanish in a sentence

This plate of snacks has vanished.

verb

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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vanish

to go or pass suddenly from sight; disappear
to cease to exist; come to an end
Math. to become zero

Origin of vanish

Middle English vanissen, aphetic from present participle stem of Old French esvanir from Vulgar Latin an unverified form exvanire, for Classical Latin evanescere: see evanesce

Phonet. the faint last part of any of certain diphthongs, as the sound like a faint (?) ending the diphthong in boy

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vanish

intransitive verb

van·ished, van·ish·ing, van·ish·es

a. To pass out of sight, especially quickly; disappear. See Synonyms at disappear.
b. To pass out of existence: when the dinosaurs vanished from the earth.
Mathematics To become zero. Used of a function or variable.

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 ; see euə- in Indo-European roots.)

Related Forms:

van′ish·er
noun

van′ish·ing·ly
adverb

van′ish·ment
noun

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Verb

(third-person singular simple present vanishes, present participle vanishing, simple past and past participle vanished)

To become invisible or to move out of view unnoticed.
(mathematics) To become equal to zero.
The function f(x)=x^2 vanishes at x=0.

Noun

(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.

Origin

Aphetic for obsolete evanish, from Middle English, from Old French esvanir, esvaniss- (French Ã©vanouir), Vulgar Latin evanescere, from vanus (“empty")

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