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 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

Sontag claimed to have forgotten about him, but his vanishing is better explained on writerly grounds. — Alex Ross, New Yorker, 14 Mar. 2026

Until Earhart disappeared on a round-the-world flight in 1937, New York judge Joseph Crater was the most renowned vanishing act. — Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 21 Feb. 2026

Verb

One week after Connecticut reserved $500 million from last year’s surplus to potentially replace vanishing federal dollars for human services, surging revenues already have replenished much of the state’s coffers. — Keith M. Phaneuf, Hartford Courant, 3 Aug. 2026

The idea was to memorialize a vanishing Eden and the end of his five years of vagabonding, working on rivers, paying no rent. — Nick Paumgarten, New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2026

But then the recovery hit the buffers in Halifax, that hard-won momentum vanishing in a momentary loss of control through a routine maneuver and subsequent crash during the warm-up session. — Andrew Rice, New York Times, 24 July 2026

Reading – not just any kind of reading, but reading long, complex, challenging books – is quickly vanishing from the American scene. — Austin Sarat, The Conversation, 23 July 2026

Environmentalists say this could spell the end for the vanishing whales, which can drown after getting tangled up in fishing gear or being struck by boats. — ABC News, 22 July 2026

Meanwhile, hopes for a new round of talks to cobble together another ceasefire are vanishing. — Jason Ma, Fortune, 18 July 2026

His 2025 mysterious vanishing act is now a transaction-in-waiting on the business side, set to follow Jauan Jennings out the door. — Cam Inman, Mercury News, 17 July 2026

Although stories of vanishing planes and people are still linked to the myth of the Bermuda Triangle, researchers have concluded that the number of disappearances is relatively insignificant. — Andrea Romano, Travel + Leisure, 15 July 2026