Dictionary entry details
• VANISH (verb)
Meaning:
Get lost, as without warning or explanation
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Synonyms:
disappear; vanish; go away
Context example:
He disappeared without a trace
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "vanish"):
fall away; fall off (diminish in size or intensity)
desorb (go away from the surface to which (a substance) is adsorbed)
die off; die out (become extinct)
skip town; take a powder (disappear without notifying anyone (idiom))
fade; wither (lose freshness, vigor, or vitality)
blow over; evanesce; fade; fleet; pass; pass off (disappear gradually)
absent; remove (go away or leave)
go (be abolished or discarded)
die (disappear or come to an end)
fall (go as if by falling)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Something is ----ing PP
Somebody ----s PP
Sentence example:
These cars won't vanish
Meaning:
Become invisible or unnoticeable
Classified under:
Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling
Synonyms:
disappear; vanish; go away
Context example:
The effect vanished when day broke
Hypernyms (to "vanish" is one way to...):
cease; end; finish; stop; terminate (have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "vanish"):
dematerialise; dematerialize (become immaterial; disappear)
clear (go away or disappear)
bob under (disappear suddenly, as if under the surface of a body of water)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP
Sentence example:
The moon will soon vanish
Meaning:
Pass away rapidly
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Synonyms:
fell; vanish; fly
Context examples:
Time flies like an arrow / Time fleeing beneath him
Hypernyms (to "vanish" is one way to...):
elapse; glide by; go along; go by; lapse; pass; slide by; slip away; slip by (pass by)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s
Meaning:
Cease to exist
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Synonyms:
disappear; vanish
Context example:
An entire civilization vanished
Hypernyms (to "vanish" is one way to...):
cease; end; finish; stop; terminate (have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s
Meaning:
Decrease rapidly and disappear
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Synonyms:
vaporize; vanish; fly
Context examples:
the money vanished in las Vegas / all my stock assets have vaporized
Hypernyms (to "vanish" is one way to...):
decrease; diminish; fall; lessen (decrease in size, extent, or range)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s
