as in to disappear
to cease to be visible
the house vanished into the fog as we drove away
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Recent Examples of vanish
And the comforts started to vanish.
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Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 12 June 2026
The body of a 5-year-old girl who was swept into the ocean with her family in Laguna Beach before vanishing in dangerously high surf has been recovered.
—Jazmin Alvarado, Los Angeles Times, 11 June 2026
His spectral like figure seems to rise from the corpse, approaching the camera’s lens before vanishing.
—Maximilíano Durón, ARTnews.com, 11 June 2026
The island eventually vanished back into mist.
—C Pam Zhang, Travel + Leisure, 11 June 2026
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Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 12 June 2026
The body of a 5-year-old girl who was swept into the ocean with her family in Laguna Beach before vanishing in dangerously high surf has been recovered.
—Jazmin Alvarado, Los Angeles Times, 11 June 2026
His spectral like figure seems to rise from the corpse, approaching the camera’s lens before vanishing.
—Maximilíano Durón, ARTnews.com, 11 June 2026
The island eventually vanished back into mist.
—C Pam Zhang, Travel + Leisure, 11 June 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for vanish
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Thousands of acres have been abandoned or sold off, growers and processors have been forced out of business, and the jobs, local economies, and way of life that citrus built in Florida over more than a century are disappearing with them.—
Paul Meador,
The Orlando Sentinel,
13 June 2026
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Split across cool, neutral, and warm undertones, the buildable, medium-coverage liquid melts into skin, making dark spots, discoloration, and under-eye circles virtually disappear.—
Jailynn Taylor,
Allure,
13 June 2026
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Members of the organizations explained that the numerous legal and regulatory actions are not fading away once SpaceX goes public, but are likely to escalate and become bigger risks to investors, pension fund holders and other members of the financial community.—
Ashley Capoot,CJ Haddad,Samantha Subin,Lora Kolodny,
CNBC,
12 June 2026
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Hackman plays a chess-loving private investigator tasked with finding the 16-year-old daughter (Melanie Griffith, in her film debut) of a fading actress.—
Eric Farwell,
Entertainment Weekly,
12 June 2026
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“Vanish.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/vanish. Accessed 14 Jun. 2026.
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