# vanish
## English
### 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”). Doublet of evanesce.

### Pronunciation

* enPR: văn'ĭsh, IPA: /ˈvænɪʃ/
** Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -ænɪʃ
* Hyphenation: van‧ish

### Verb

vanish (third-person singular simple present vanishes, present participle vanishing, simple past and past participle vanished)
* (intransitive) To become invisible or to move out of view unnoticed.
** 1843 December 19, Charles Dickens, “Stave Three. The Second of the Three Spirits.”, in A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas, London: Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC, pages 79–80:Holly, mistletoe, red berries, ivy, turkeys, geese, game, poultry, brawn, meat, pigs, sausages, oysters, pies, puddings, fruit, and punch, all vanished instantly.
** 1920, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Avery Hopwood, chapter I, in The Bat: A Novel from the Play (Dell Book; 241), New York, N.Y.: Dell Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 01: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.
** 1982, Ashford & Simpson (lyrics and music), “Love It Away”, in Street Opera: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
* (mathematics) To become equal to zero.
    The function $f$ such as $f(x)=x^{2}$ vanishes at $x=0$.
* (transitive) To disappear; to kidnap.
** 2011, Patrick Meaney, Our Sentence Is Up: Seeing Grant Morrison's the Invisibles, Sequart, →ISBN, page 330: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.
** 2004, John Varley, The John Varley Reader, Penguin, →ISBN:It was whispered that men had been “vanished” by the Line and returned everted. Turned inside out.

#### Synonyms

* disappear

#### Derived terms

* 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

#### Related terms

* vain

#### Translations
### Noun

vanish (plural vanishes)
* (phonetics) 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.
** 1827, James Rush, The Philosophy of the Human Voice: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
* A magic trick in which something seems to disappear.
    The French drop is a well-known vanish involving sleight of hand.
* A disappearance; a vanishment.

#### See also

* glide

### References

* ↑ “vanish”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

### Anagrams

* shavin'