"vanish" | Definition and Related Words

vanish

Verb

Get lost, as without warning or explanation (synset 200427911)
"He disappeared without a trace"
subtypes:
- fall away, fall off - diminish in size or intensity
- fall - go as if by falling
- die - disappear or come to an end
- go - be abolished or discarded
- absent, remove - go away or leave
- blow over, evanesce, fade, fleet, pass, pass off - disappear gradually
- fade, wither - lose freshness, vigor, or vitality
- skip town, take a powder - disappear without notifying anyone (idiom)
- die off, die out - become extinct
- desorb - go away from the surface to which (a substance) is adsorbed
same as: disappear, go away
Become invisible or unnoticeable (synset 202160976)
"The effect vanished when day broke"

is a type of: cease, end, finish, stop, terminate - have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical
subtypes:
- dematerialise, dematerialize - become immaterial; disappear
- clear - go away or disappear
- bob under - disappear suddenly, as if under the surface of a body of water
same as: disappear, go away
Pass away rapidly (synset 202076993)
"Time flies like an arrow"; "Time fleeing beneath him"

is a type of: elapse, glide by, go along, go by, lapse, pass, slide by, slip away, slip by - pass by

same as: fell, fly

verb group: fly, vanish, vaporize - decrease rapidly and disappear
Cease to exist (synset 200428350)
"An entire civilization vanished"

is a type of: cease, end, finish, stop, terminate - have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical

same as: disappear
Decrease rapidly and disappear (synset 200152881)
"the money vanished in las Vegas"; "all my stock assets have vaporized"

is a type of: decrease, diminish, fall, lessen - decrease in size, extent, or range

same as: fly, vaporize

verb group: fell, fly, vanish - pass away rapidly

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