vanish

Formsvanishes, vanishing, vanished

Pluralvanishes

1. 1
   verbintransitive

   To go away suddenly so that you can no longer be seen.

   Like a drop of water that dries up and is gone.

   The cat can vanish into the bushes in a second.

   His smile vanished when he heard the news.

   Similardisappear, fade, evaporate, dissipate, dissolve

   Oppositeappear, emerge, materialize

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2. 2
   nouncountable

   A magic trick where something seems to disappear right in front of you.

   Like watching something disappear in a blink, even though you know it is a trick.

   The magician's best vanish made a live bird seem to disappear.

   He showed us a simple vanish using just a coin.

   Oppositeproduction

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3. 3
   nouncountable

   A sudden act of going away so that you can no longer be seen or found.

   Like blowing out a candle: the flame is simply gone.

   The detective could not explain the witness's vanish from the safe house.

   Her sudden vanish from the party worried everyone.

   Similardisappearance, departure, exit

   Oppositeappearance, reappearance, return

4. 4
   verbtransitive

   To make a person disappear, often by taking them away by force.

   The regime would vanish anyone who spoke against it.

   Soldiers vanished hundreds of villagers during the war.

   Similardisappear, abduct, kidnap

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5. 5
   verbintransitive

   To become zero, with no amount or value left.

   Like a total that shrinks down step by step until nothing is left.

   When you set x to zero, the whole expression will vanish.

   At that exact point, the difference between the two numbers vanishes.

   Similardisappear

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6. 6
   nouncountable

   The short final part of a vowel sound that sounds a bit different from the main part.

   Like the soft fade at the end of a long note.

   You can hear a slight vanish at the end of the vowel in 'go.'

   Singers learn to control the vanish so each note sounds clean.

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