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- pronunciation:
- vae
nihsh
| part of speech: |
verb |
| inflections: |
vanishes, vanishing, vanished |
| definition 1: |
If something vanishes, suddenly you can't see it at all. It just disappears.
We saw the bright light for a moment in the dark. Then it vanished.- synonyms:
- disappear
- antonyms:
- appear
- similar words:
- evaporate
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| definition 2: |
When something vanishes, it completely ends. It doesn't exist anymore.
The woman's smile vanished when she heard the bad news.The police looked for the man for weeks, but he just seemed to have vanished.- synonyms:
- disappear
- similar words:
- cease, dissolve, end, expire, fade
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| related words: |
die, melt, pass |
| derivations: |
vanisher (n.), vanishment (n.) |
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