vanished; vanishing; vanishes
1
a
: to pass quickly from sight : disappear
b
: to pass completely from existence
2
: to assume the value zero
: to cause to disappear
vanisher
noun
Examples of vanish in a Sentence
The missing girl vanished without a trace a year ago.
The papers seem to have vanished into thin air.
Dinosaurs vanished from the face of the earth millions of years ago.
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If the lipids oxidize after the plant dies, much of the benefit could vanish.
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Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 13 Sep. 2025
Demerzel shields the embryo with her body, and both are incinerated, vanishing in a white-hot instant, love and code consumed together.
—Jp Mangalindan, Time, 12 Sep. 2025
Then in July 2023, a grand jury indicted Haslett on an additional count of first-degree murder in the killing of Jaynie Crosdale, 36, of Kansas City, who had vanished months before her body was found in June 2023 in the Missouri River in Saline County, stuffed into a blue barrel.
—Kansas City Star, 12 Sep. 2025
Grey’s son, Loren Grey, restored his father’s original ending in the novel’s 1982 Pocket Books reprint, but the vanishing mythos remains intact, with the last of the tribe wistfully following Curtis’s Navajo into the temporal graveyard of the past.
—Literary Hub, 11 Sep. 2025
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Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 13 Sep. 2025
Demerzel shields the embryo with her body, and both are incinerated, vanishing in a white-hot instant, love and code consumed together.
—Jp Mangalindan, Time, 12 Sep. 2025
Then in July 2023, a grand jury indicted Haslett on an additional count of first-degree murder in the killing of Jaynie Crosdale, 36, of Kansas City, who had vanished months before her body was found in June 2023 in the Missouri River in Saline County, stuffed into a blue barrel.
—Kansas City Star, 12 Sep. 2025
Grey’s son, Loren Grey, restored his father’s original ending in the novel’s 1982 Pocket Books reprint, but the vanishing mythos remains intact, with the last of the tribe wistfully following Curtis’s Navajo into the temporal graveyard of the past.
—Literary Hub, 11 Sep. 2025
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“Vanish.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/vanish. Accessed 15 Sep. 2025.
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