English Explanatory Dictionary

vanish

English dictionary entry

Meanings

verb
  1. To become invisible or to move out of view unnoticed.
  2. To become equal to zero.
  3. To disappear; to kidnap.
noun
  1. The brief terminal part of a vowel or vocal element, differing more or less in quality from the main part.
  2. A magic trick in which something seems to disappear.
  3. A disappearance; a vanishment.

Pronunciation

văn'ĭsh /ˈvænɪʃ/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-vanish.wav

Word forms

vanish vanishes vanishing vanished

Etymology

Aphetic for obsolete evanish, from Middle English vanyshen, evaneschen, from Old French esvanir, esvaniss- (modern French évanouir), from Vulgar Latin *exvanire (“to vanish, disappear, to fade out”), from Latin evanescere, from vanus (“empty”). By surface analysis, Latin van- + -ish (“verb suffix”). Doublet of evanesce. Displaced native Old English cwincan, whose causative persists as quench (“put out (fire)”).

Synonyms

disappear

Related words

vain glide

Derived words

angle of vanishing stability Kodaira vanishing theorem vanishing foam vanishing fraction vanishing ideal vanishing point vanishing spray vanishing testes syndrome vanishing twin vanishing twin syndrome vanish into thin air vanish to the four winds
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