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vanish

verb
/ˈvænɪʃ/

Etymology

Aphetic for obsolete evanish, from Middle English vanyshen, evaneschen, from Old French esvanir, esvaniss- (modern French évanouir), from Vulgar Latin *exvanire (“to vanish, disappear, to fade out”), from Latin evanescere, from vanus (“empty”). By surface analysis, Latin van- + -ish (“verb suffix”). Doublet of evanesce. Displaced native Old English cwincan, whose causative persists as quench (“put out (fire)”).

  1. derived from evanesco
  2. derived from *exvanire✻
  3. derived from esvanir, esvaniss-
  4. inherited from vanyshen

Definitions

  1. To become invisible or to move out of view unnoticed.

    • Holly, mistletoe, red berries, ivy, turkeys, geese, game, poultry, brawn, meat, pigs, sausages, oysters, pies, puddings, fruit, and punch, all vanished instantly.
    • The Bat—they called him the Bat. Like a bat he chose the night hours for his work of rapine; like a bat he struck and vanished, pouncingly, noiselessly; like a bat he never showed himself to the face of the day.
    • I realize sometimes / In a web of passion we all get caught / But understand / All the hurt and all the pain / It's gonna vanish just like the rain

  2. To become equal to zero.

    • The function f such as f(x)#61;x² vanishes at x#61;0.

  3. To disappear

    To disappear; to kidnap.

    • And as if to prove it, one of his friends was vanished and was never seen again. The guy got in a taxi one night, and no one ever saw him ever again.
    • It was whispered that men had been “vanished” by the Line and returned everted. Turned inside out.
  4. ›+ 3 more definitions

    1. The brief terminal part of a vowel or vocal element, differing more or less in quality…

      The brief terminal part of a vowel or vocal element, differing more or less in quality from the main part.

      • a as in ale ordinarily ends with a vanish of i as in ill.
      • o as in old ordinarily ends with a vanish of oo as in foot.
      • The median stres may also on a protracted quantity , slightly resemble respectively that of the radical and of the vanish , by sudenly enlarging in the course of the prolongation and gradualy diminishing ; and by the reverse

    2. A magic trick in which something seems to disappear.

      • The French drop is a well-known vanish involving sleight of hand.

    3. A disappearance

      A disappearance; a vanishment.

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Derived

angle of vanishing stability, Kodaira vanishing theorem, vanishing foam, vanishing fraction, vanishing ideal, vanishing point, vanishing spray, vanishing testes syndrome, vanishing twin, vanishing twin syndrome, vanish into thin air, vanish to the four winds

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at vanish. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at vanish. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

6 hops · closes at vanish

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA