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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
vanish
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
disappear/vanish into the mist (=stop being seen because of the mist)
▪ He passed me on the trail and disappeared into the mist.
disappear/vanish/sink without (a) trace (=disappear completely, without leaving any sign of what happened)
▪ The plane vanished without a trace.
sb’s smile fades/vanishes (=they stop smiling)
▪ Her smile faded and a shaft of panic shot through her.
sink/vanish beneath the waves
▪ The ship sank beneath the waves.
vanishing point
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
again
▪ Finally, crux beneath the difficulties diminish, but runners again vanish.
▪ But no sooner was his name mentioned than he had vanished again.
▪ He briefly caught Dunn, but Dunn was dodging like a rabbit and he vanished again.
▪ He was on his fifth day, and Arthur figured another two days then he'd vanish again.
▪ All of those present who had shed their masks activated their own identical tattoos then willed the image to vanish again.
altogether
▪ But they appeared to vanish altogether for several years to return mysteriously to look, to whistle and back chat.
▪ It should be noted that Greenwald is not vanishing altogether.
▪ Some days, it's too misty and it's like it's vanished altogether.
▪ So good old classical clues will almost certainly have vanished altogether.
▪ This need not mean that the private/public distinction vanishes altogether but it applies to different domains.
▪ Another step forward and Pooley noted to his utter stupefaction that it had vanished altogether into empty air.
as
▪ The surviving remnants of the eighteenth-century building are shown in solid black, the parts which have vanished as broken lines.
▪ The old witch has vanished as mysteriously as she appeared.
▪ He had vanished as completely as the ghost of Masque de Fer.
▪ It had vanished as silently as if it had been only a figment of her imagination.
▪ She warned that when things vanished as quickly as this, it was quite possible that they might come back.
simply
▪ Western agents - including our own - have verified they have simply vanished.
▪ All life, plant and animal, within a mile radius of Ground Zero simply vanished.
▪ The money which has suddenly and mysteriously become available simply vanishes into thin air as Ruggiero Miletti magically reappears.
▪ Those parts of the world which were excluded from this new exchange simply vanished.
▪ The accused will after Allen be guilty if he simply vanishes with no intent to repay.
▪ Denied anger has to go somewhere; it can not simply vanish into the air.
▪ The Apple boutique closed down after only eight months, most of the clothing having simply vanished.
■ NOUN
air
▪ The money which has suddenly and mysteriously become available simply vanishes into thin air as Ruggiero Miletti magically reappears.
▪ Maybe each and every one of them had vanished into thin air.
▪ Denied anger has to go somewhere; it can not simply vanish into the air.
▪ It was almost as if he'd vanished into thin air.
▪ Another step forward and Pooley noted to his utter stupefaction that it had vanished altogether into empty air.
earth
▪ It had vanished from the earth.
▪ If they accepted, nuclear missiles would vanish from the earth.
face
▪ Twenty-three people had vanished from the face of the earth.
▪ The angst vanishes from his face and voice.
▪ The well-defined features of the photograph had vanished, the face had swollen in death as had the exposed arms.
sight
▪ Here the linguistic cocoon is spun to such complexity that the characters and narrative structure sometimes vanish from sight.
▪ The rest of us heard a thin squeak, and started calling for her as she had vanished from sight.
▪ One of the galleys had vanished from sight.
▪ Within a few seconds it flew on again, vanishing from sight and hearing.
▪ Persons can vanish utterly from sight for these reasons.
▪ She vanished from sight, but Hippolytus, too, was gone.
▪ The shore had vanished from sight.
smile
▪ Meh'Lindi wore a mildly blissful smile which vanished as she came alert again.
trace
▪ After a moment the impact vanished, leaving no trace.
▪ Most of these fireballs burn up or explode in the atmosphere and vanish without a trace.
▪ Well, Poppy vanished without trace.
▪ Many more vanished without a trace.
▪ The relationship lasted for almost three months; then Lavinia vanished without trace.
▪ How can an entire house vanish without a trace.
▪ Moira Anderson vanished without trace in a snow storm while running an errand for her grandmother on 23 February 1957.
view
▪ Farini vanished from public view for more than a year.
▪ Then it zipped away at what seemed like incredible speed and vanished from view.
■ VERB
seem
▪ Energy seems to vanish and re-emerge in dramatic swings.
▪ Certainly there is no lack of talent, though any relish for structured theatre careers seems to have vanished.
▪ But in spite of their hardness they seemed to vanish in no time.
▪ The normality of their life together, minimal at the best of times, seemed to be vanishing completely.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
disappear/vanish from sight
▪ Then the plane vanished from sight on the radar screen.
▪ Here the linguistic cocoon is spun to such complexity that the characters and narrative structure sometimes vanish from sight.
▪ It disappeared from sight behind the slope of the hill.
▪ She vanished from sight, but Hippolytus, too, was gone.
▪ So, since he is disappearing from sight, he has dyed his hair black, eyebrows, too.
▪ The rest of us heard a thin squeak, and started calling for her as she had vanished from sight.
▪ The shore had vanished from sight.
▪ Within a few seconds it flew on again, vanishing from sight and hearing.
▪ Within seconds of the Wheel disappearing from sight the red glow was extinguished.
disappear/vanish from/off the face of the earth
disappear/vanish into thin air
▪ As happened during and after the first war of independence, the money has disappeared into thin air.
▪ It was almost as if he'd vanished into thin air.
▪ Maybe each and every one of them had vanished into thin air.
▪ The Cheshire cat is an odd character and he causes confusion when he literally disappears into thin air.
▪ The money which has suddenly and mysteriously become available simply vanishes into thin air as Ruggiero Miletti magically reappears.
▪ Victor and his kidnappers had disappeared into thin air.
▪ Yet he seemed to disappear into thin air.
▪ You can tell these mysterious trails were not made yesterday, because of the way they seem to disappear into thin air.
do a disappearing/vanishing act
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ All hopes of finding the boy alive have vanished.
▪ Before she could scream, the man had vanished into the night.
▪ Like so many dance crazes, the "moonwalk' was popular for a while in the clubs, then vanished without a trace.
▪ Smith vanished from Heathrow Airport in 1969 and is believed to be living in Florida.
▪ Statistics show that Santa Clara's farmland is vanishing.
▪ The company that supplied the missing cargo seems to have vanished into thin air.
▪ The last of the police cars sped past and vanished into the storm.
▪ The plane vanished from radar screens soon after taking off.
▪ The Shatin rice fields have long vanished beneath a new town of skyscrapers and motorways.
▪ The snow flakes vanished as they touched the ground.
▪ When she returned, her car had vanished.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Once it began it would go on for days, and then as inexplicably vanish.
▪ The pain in his arm and neck had vanished.
▪ Within a few seconds it flew on again, vanishing from sight and hearing.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Vanish

Vanish \Van"ish\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Vanished; p. pr. & vb. n. Vanishing.] [OE. vanissen, OF. vanir (in comp.): cf. OF. envanir, esvanir, esvanu["i]r, F. s'['e]vanouir; fr. L. vanus empty, vain; cf. L. vanescere, evanescere, to vanish. See Vain, and cf. Evanescent, -ish.]

  1. 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.

    The horse vanished . . . out of sight.
    --Chaucer.

    Go; vanish into air; away!
    --Shak.

    The champions vanished from their posts with the speed of lightning.
    --Sir W. Scott.

    Gliding from the twilight past to vanish among realities.
    --Hawthorne.

  2. To be annihilated or lost; to pass away. ``All these delights will vanish.''
    --Milton.

Vanish

Vanish \Van"ish\, n. (Phon.) 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.
--Rush.

Note: The vanish is included by Mr. Bell under the general term glide.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
vanish

"disappear quickly," c.1300, from shortened form of esvaniss-, stem of Old French esvanir "disappear; cause to disappear," from Vulgar Latin *exvanire, from Latin evanescere "disappear, pass away, die out," from ex- "out" (see ex-) + vanescere "vanish," inchoative verb from vanus "empty" (see vain). Related: Vanished; vanishing; vanishingly. Vanishing point in perspective drawing is recorded from 1797.

Wiktionary
vanish

n. (context phonetics English) The brief terminal part of a vowel or vocal element, differing more or less in quality from the main part. vb. 1 To become invisible or to move out of view unnoticed. 2 (lb en mathematics) To become equal to zero.

WordNet
vanish
  1. v. get lost, especially without warning or explanation; "He disappeared without a trace" [syn: disappear, go away] [ant: appear]

  2. become invisible or unnoticeable; "The effect vanished when day broke" [syn: disappear, go away]

  3. pass away rapidly; "Time flies like an arrow"; "Time fleeing beneath him" [syn: fly, fell]

  4. cease to exist; "An entire civilization vanished" [syn: disappear] [ant: appear]

  5. decrease rapidly and disappear; "the money vanished in las Vegas"; "all my stock assets have vaporized" [syn: fly, vaporize]

Wikipedia
Vanish (brand)

Vanish is a brand of toilet bowl cleaner produced by S. C. Johnson in North America. They obtained the brand through the purchase of The Drackett Company in 1992.

The Vanish name has since accompanied S. C. Johnson's Scrubbing Bubbles brand as a sub-brand.

Vanish

Vanish may refer to:

  • Vanish (brand), a toilet bowl cleaner by S.C. Johnson or a cloth stain remover by Reckitt Benckiser.
  • Vanish (stain remover), a brand of cloth cleaning product by Reckitt Benckiser.
  • "Vanish" an episode of the TV series Criss Angel Mindfreak.
  • Vanishing, a type of magical effect.
  • Vanish (mathematics), said of a mathematical function that gives the value a zero at some argument (a root of the function).
  • Vanish (computer science), a project at the University of Washington to protect online personal data.
  • Vanish (film), a 2015 American thriller film stylized as VANish
Vanish (computer science)

Vanish is a project at the University of Washington which endeavors to "give users control over the lifetime of personal data stored on the web." The project proposes to allow a user to enter information that he or she will send out across the internet, thereby relinquishing control of it. However, the user is able to include an "expiration date," after which the information is no longer usable by anyone who may have a copy of it, even the creator. The Vanish approach was found to be vulnerable to a Sybil attack, and thus insecure, by a team called Unvanish from the University of Texas, University of Michigan, and Princeton.

Vanish (film)

Vanish (stylized as VANish) is a 2015 thriller film written and directed by Bryan Bockbrader. It stars Maiara Walsh, Austin Abke, Bockbrader, and Adam Guthrie. Tony Todd and Danny Trejo appear in cameos. Walsh plays a kidnapping victim who both manipulates her captors and becomes a pawn in their individual plots. The entire film takes place from inside the van used to kidnap her character. Dark Sky Films released it to video on demand and on DVD on February 24, 2015.

Vanish (stain remover)

Vanish is a brand of stain removing products owned by Reckitt Benckiser, sold in Australia, India, South Africa, the United Kingdom and much of Europe. In North America, these products are sold under the Resolve brand name.

The product line is not related to the North American Vanish toilet cleaner brand owned by S. C. Johnson. Most Vanish products are designed for removing stains from clothing, with some for removing stains from carpets.

In Australia, Vanish has replaced 'Preen' in media advertising voiceovers as the name for the pre-treat clothing stain remover, although "Vanish Preen" and "Vanish Napisan" continue to appear as sub-brands. Vanish's marketing slogan, as of January 2011, is "Trust Pink, Forget Stains".

VANISH is the global stain remover market leader in the Fabric treatment category, which is sold in more than 60 countries across the globe. VANISH started as a stain removing bar laundry product produced about 1983 by a small Scottish company called Projectina Co Ltd established by Robert G Macfarlane in Skelmorlie, Scotland. The brand was soon acquired by Ecolab in 1986 and became a Benckiser brand in 1987 when the latter acquired Ecolab’s consumer goods operations. Benckiser N.V. merged with Reckitt & Colman PLC in 1999 to form Reckitt Benckiser PLC. The VANISH name is now applied to a wide range of stain removing products across a broad range of textile materials, now including curtains and carpets. The RB Group of companies (RB Group) has several subsidiary entities worldwide, such as RB N.V. based in the Netherlands, the entity that holds the trademarks for the VANISH brand.

Usage examples of "vanish".

Archimages have included shielding aborigines who were in danger of being exterminated by hostile humans, and collecting and disposing of dangerous or inappropriate artifacts of the Vanished Ones that turned up in the ancient ruined cities.

There is also the resemblance of the plan of the city to the blade of such a knife, the curve of the defile corresponding to the curve of the blade, the River Acis to the central rib, Acies Castle to the point, and the Capulus to the line at which the steel vanishes into the haft.

There was still a kernel of distrust--the United States would not show the Saudis its sigint cables--and actionable intelligence it passed along often vanished when it reached the salons of the royal family, whose interests were often inscrutably complex.

But this incredulity vanished in a moment when the nation was startled on the 30th of July, two days after the adjournment of Congress, by a massacre at New Orleans, which had not the pretense of justification or even or provocation.

Finally, the deck aft vanished in the wake, which slowly calmed from its violent white foam to a light blue.

He glanced aft long enough to see that the after-deck had vanished into the water, which left only the forward deck exposed.

The man aims for that rapidly vanishing afterglow, alone on a darkly painted sea, a single, tiny figure chasing a sun that has already deserted him.

Half-blinded by her own blood, Aganippe could not see what happened, but the rest of Goddess Pride vanished, their snarls dying in the distance.

Nonetheless, our golden agouti vanished, stolen by someone who ate it, Father suspected.

He wheeled, dodged between two Danes, end vanished down a game trail with alacritous churning of short legs.

This time the glowing drops vanished as they touched Alec, leaving a faint tingling sensation in their wake.

The thing to do is treat ghosts as incidental, or the amahs vanish for good.

He had noticed shortly after his sister had recognized him that the lighthearted ambience the brunette beauty had displayed upon her initial entrance into the manor had vanished.

Behind them, the full squadron of amphibious planes dove into the water, vanishing beneath the surface, leaving only a scar of churned foam to mark where they had entered the sea.

Instead of going down to supper she returned to the solitude of her own room, but the apathy of the earlier part of the day had vanished utterly.