to vanish

Examples

• All

• Maybe a hundred species a day are vanishing, Newsweek recently estimated, from deforestation alone.

  Academic text (2008)

• We then board the airplane again and vanish over the city into the clouds.

  Academic text (1999)

• At that very moment, I felt my own hurt vanish like a wisp of smoke.

  Fiction book (1990)

• I had just woken up, looked out my window just in time to see you vanish.

  The Wrath of Becky (2023)

• The next day, the complaint vanished.

  Philadelphia (1993)

• How did the entire Maya civilization simply vanish without a trace?

  Decoding the Unknown

• With a derisive salute in my direction, he vanished through a door on the service level.

  Fiction book (1990)

• An army of 3,000 Chinese soldiers vanished without a trace, long before they reached the battlefield.

  Phantoms (1998)

• Legend holds that when a tiger vanishes into the forest, last to fade from view are its eyes.

  Academic text (2011)

• The magician made the rabbit vanish from the hat in an instant.

Synonyms

D

to disappear

vsto vanish

∞ 1.0

To stop being seen or to no longer be there

is sudden and complete and often mysterious rather than gradual or abstract

S

to slip away

vsto vanish

32 3.4

To leave a place quietly without anyone noticing

happens suddenly and completely rather than quietly or intentionally leaving

D

to disappear into thin air

vsto vanish

• Informal

8 4.4

To vanish suddenly with no trace

is sudden and unexpected rather than only mysterious

V

to vaporize

vsto vanish

• Informal

4 5.6

To disappear or fall very quickly, for example when money loses value

describes sudden physical or unexplained ceasing to exist rather than rapid loss in value

V

to vanish off the face of the earth

vsto vanish

• Informal

1 8.1

Disappear completely so no one knows what happened and no sign is left

focuses more on suddenness and surprise than only the lack of traces

G

gone off the face of the earth

vsto vanish

• Informal

9.5

Someone or something disappears completely so nobody knows where they are

is sudden and often unexplained rather than only total absence

Antonyms

A

to appear

873 1.0

To come into view or become visible

E

to emerge

249 3.5

To come out from behind or under something and become visible

Idioms

V

to vanish off the face of the earth

• Informal

1 8.1

Disappear completely so no one knows what happened and no sign is left

How Invisible

to vanish

421 3.0

to disappear

∞ 1.0

to fade

531 1.2

Surface Forms

Etymology