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

In the season 1 finale, it was revealed that Roman was an undercover FBI informant, which might have been the reason for his vanishing. —Christopher Rudolph, PEOPLE, 7 Jan. 2026

His vanishing is what kickstarted everything. —Nick Romano, Entertainment Weekly, 26 Dec. 2025

The vanishing of a core rivalry — a pairing of teams whose matchups bring the NBA to a halt — has been one of the consequences of the NBA’s brief parity era. —Jared Weiss, New York Times, 24 Dec. 2025

Instead of just the solar disk vanishing, the entire corona disappeared. —Daisy Dobrijevic, Space.com, 24 Sep. 2025

The literary thriller charts the disappearance of a girl from an upstate New York summer camp — and links it to the mysterious vanishing of her brother years earlier. —Carly Tagen-Dye, People.com, 14 Aug. 2025

This kind of waste, activists say, is contributing to the vanishing of the Great Salt Lake, which three years ago reached a record, concerning low. —Giulia Carbonaro, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 Aug. 2025

Verb

Concerns over inflation came to a head when the prices of basic goods such as cooking oil and chicken dramatically spiked, with some products vanishing from shelves altogether. —Mostafa Salem, CNN Money, 12 Jan. 2026

British explorer Colonel Percy Fawcett, who wandered the Amazon for 22 years at the beginning of the 20th century before vanishing without a trace, wrote that the breath of the anaconda stupefied its prey. —Stanley Stewart, Travel + Leisure, 10 Jan. 2026

In a movie about bank accounts vanishing overnight and careers teetering on the brink, the actor’s very real eviction saga lends the satire an edge that even National Lampoon could not have scripted. —Seth Abramovitch, HollywoodReporter, 8 Jan. 2026

But this year Ross became a ghost, vanishing into thin air after games. —Omar Kelly, Miami Herald, 8 Jan. 2026

At first glance, replacing tens or even hundreds of millions of vanishing federal Medicaid dollars each year is not an unsolvable problem in Connecticut. —Keith M. Phaneuf, Hartford Courant, 7 Jan. 2026

Thirteen years after her speech, Foster feels as though her warning to the audience that privacy was vanishing has come true, and is unhappy about it. —Daniel D'addario, Variety, 7 Jan. 2026

With Links Hall, Stage 773, Hamlin Park Fieldhouse and other venues vanishing in recent years, Steppenwolf has stepped up as a gap-filler, annually presenting a suite of cross-genre performing artists on the vanguard. —Lauren Warnecke, Chicago Tribune, 7 Jan. 2026

Arredondo allegedly stabbed Paulos 30 times before fleeing the scene and then vanishing altogether, police said. —Kc Baker, PEOPLE, 31 Oct. 2025