Definition of vanish Vanish
/væˈnɪʃ/ - [vanish] - van•ish
We found 12 definitions of vanish from 4 different sources.
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| vanish - become invisible or unnoticeable; "The effect vanished when day broke" | ||
| disappear, go away | ||
| cease, end, terminate, finish, stop bring to an end or halt; "She ended their friendship when she found out that he had once been convicted of a crime"; "The attack on Poland terminated the relatively peaceful period after WW I" | ||
| dematerialise, dematerialize become immaterial; disappear | ||
| clear free (the throat) by making a rasping sound; "Clear the throat" | ||
| bob under disappear suddenly, as if under the surface of a body of water | ||
| vanish - cease to exist; "An entire civilization vanished" | ||
| disappear | ||
| come along, appear come into sight or view; "He suddenly appeared at the wedding"; "A new star appeared on the horizon" | ||
| cease, end, terminate, finish, stop bring to an end or halt; "She ended their friendship when she found out that he had once been convicted of a crime"; "The attack on Poland terminated the relatively peaceful period after WW I" | ||
| vanish - decrease rapidly and disappear; "the money vanished in las Vegas"; "all my stock assets have vaporized" | ||
| fly, vaporize | ||
| decrease, diminish, lessen, fall decrease in size, extent, or range; "The amount of homework decreased towards the end of the semester"; "The cabin pressure fell dramatically"; "her weight fell to under a hundred pounds"; "his voice fell to a whisper" | ||
| fell, vanish, fly cause to fall by or as if by delivering a blow; "strike down a tree"; "Lightning struck down the hikers" | ||
| vanish - get lost, as without warning or explanation; "He disappeared without a trace" | ||
| disappear, go away | ||
| appear come into sight or view; "He suddenly appeared at the wedding"; "A new star appeared on the horizon" | ||
| fall away, fall off diminish in size or intensity | ||
| fall pass suddenly and passively into a state of body or mind; "fall into a trap"; "She fell ill"; "They fell out of favor"; "Fall in love"; "fall asleep"; "fall prey to an imposter"; "fall into a strange way of thinking"; "she fell to pieces after she lost her work" | ||
| die suffer spiritual death; be damned (in the religious sense); "Whosoever..believes in me shall never die" | ||
| go be abolished or discarded; "These ugly billboards have to go!"; "These luxuries all had to go under the Khmer Rouge" | ||
| absent, remove go away or leave; "He absented himself" | ||
| blow over, evanesce, fleet, fade, pass off, pass disappear gradually; "The pain eventually passed off" | ||
| wither, fade become less clearly visible or distinguishable; disappear gradually or seemingly; "The scene begins to fade"; "The tree trunks are melting into the forest at dusk" | ||
| skip town, take a powder disappear without notifying anyone (idiom) | ||
| die off, die out become extinct; "Dinosaurs died out" | ||
| desorb remove from a surface on which it is adsorbed; "the substance was desorbed" | ||
| vanish - pass away rapidly; "Time flies like an arrow"; "Time fleeing beneath him" | ||
| fly, fell | ||
| vaporize, vanish, fly decrease rapidly and disappear; "the money vanished in las Vegas"; "all my stock assets have vaporized" | ||
| elapse, glide by, slide by, slip by, slip away, go along, go by, lapse, pass pass by; "three years elapsed" | ||
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Wiktionary 
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- vanish (v. i.)
To pass from a visible to an invisible state; to go out of sight; to disappear; to fade; as, vapor vanishes from the sight by being dissipated; a ship vanishes from the sight of spectators on land. - vanish (v. i.)
To be annihilated or lost; to pass away. - vanish (n.)
The brief terminal part of vowel or vocal element, differing more or less in quality from the main part; as, a as in ale ordinarily ends with a vanish of i as in ill, o as in old with a vanish of oo as in foot.
