vanishes
SayVAN-i-shiz/ˈvænɪʃɪz/
- 1Third-person singular simple present of vanish.
Her smile vanishes whenever the topic of her old job comes up.
The trail vanishes into thick brush about a mile past the ridge.
Note
The -es ending here marks a verb agreeing with a single subject, but the same spelling is also the plural of the noun: a conjurer's vanishes are tricks, and in phonetics vanishes are the faint closing parts of vowels. As a verb it is usually intransitive (the trail vanishes). Mathematicians say a function vanishes when it equals zero, and a regime that vanishes its critics kidnaps them.
vanishes is a form of vanish
vanish, verb: To pass out of sight or cease to be visible, often suddenly or without being noticed. Full entry
- Spelling
- vanish → vanishes: add -es
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /ɪz/, an extra syllable.
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