Synonyms of vanishing

vanishing 1 of 2

noun

as in melting

Related Words

• melting
• passing
• evaporation
• fading
• dissipation
• disappearance
• departing
• dissolution
• retirement
• departure
• leaving
• withdrawal
• fadeaway
• parting
• exiting
• quitting
• decamping
• going
• exit
• decampment
• egress
• farewell
• retreat
• exodus
• emigration
• leave-taking
• evacuation
• clearing out

Dissimilar Words

• coming
• appearance
• arrival
• advent
• approach
• entrance
• beginning
• start
• incoming
• birth
• morning
• onset
• dawn
• genesis
• commencement
• ingress
• debut
• inception
• dawning

vanishing

2 of 2

verb

present participle of vanish

as in disappearing

to cease to be visible

the house vanished into the fog as we drove away

Synonyms & Similar Words

• disappearing
• fading
• melting
• flying
• evaporating
• fleeing
• dissolving
• dissipating
• sinking
• blurring
• dematerializing
• evanescing
• dropping out of sight
• dispersing
• dying (away or down or out)
• clearing
• drying up
• dimming
• blanking (out)

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• appearing
• emerging
• arriving
• issuing
• looming
• materializing
• coming out
• showing up
• breaking out

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of vanishing

Noun

The explosion of malice effaces them in different ways, and James traces the mechanisms of their vanishing, examining how a person’s life can be compressed into smaller and smaller spaces. — Katy Waldman, New Yorker, 31 Aug. 2026

Bearing witness to that vanishing is a rare and fleeting privilege. — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 10 Aug. 2026

The vanishing of any craft is a tragedy to all who prefer the existence of a thing to its opposite, but restorative art represents more than just a niche domain of aesthetic achievement or a macabre postmortem racket. — John Semley, Harpers Magazine, 28 July 2026

That question, once unimaginable, has become urgent as climate change shrinks the country’s glaciers to the vanishing point. — Matthew Carey, Deadline, 28 July 2026

Upon driving home from work on the afternoon of Denise's vanishing, her husband Nathan Lee found their children, 2-year-old Noah and 6-month-old Adam, alone in the same crib. — Mason Leath, ABC News, 19 June 2026

Watching Moon and this better daughter, Stevie fantasizes about walking out of the store and vanishing. — Carly Tagen-Dye, PEOPLE, 3 June 2026

There were those e-books, the vanishing of book review sections and book reviews from newspapers, struggles of independent bookstores in the face of Amazon and, most recently, the invasion of AI, with its Claude, Perplexity, ChatGPT and Gemini with their seductive and threatening ways. — Rick Kogan, Chicago Tribune, 27 May 2026

That’s followed by periods of contemplation, energized wakefulness, and, purportedly, a vanishing of withdrawal symptoms. — Shayla Love, The Atlantic, 24 May 2026

Verb

By the late twentieth century, nature photography and film had become not only a way of seeing, but also a way of caring—shaping public consciousness about endangered species, vanishing habitats, and the fragility of ecosystems. — Andrew Zuckerman, Popular Science, 7 Nov. 2026

The hardware was reportedly picked up as scheduled by a truck bearing the logo of a food transportation company before vanishing off the grid. — Nick Indge, ArsTechnica, 6 Nov. 2026

Titles by a once ubiquitous prize-winning author are vanishing. — Mark Rice-Oxley, Christian Science Monitor, 3 Nov. 2026

After vanishing three years ago with his sister Felicia (Abigail Donaghy), Michael Frost (Landon Valentin) has been found. — Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 30 Oct. 2026

And his schedule would suggest that’s coming in abundance — don’t expect a vanishing act from Nick Mohammed anytime soon. — Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 28 Oct. 2026

To cross them was to risk vanishing—not merely from the screen, but from the collective story America told about itself. — Jim Hemphill, IndieWire, 27 Oct. 2026

The vanishing palette A perfumer’s raw materials are in a chaotic stage of both perpetual innovation and rapid disappearance. — Arabelle Sicardi, CNN Money, 27 Oct. 2026

Joan realizes that her mother’s vanishing meshes with a larger tapestry of tragedy that has plagued their family over the years. — Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 23 Oct. 2026