From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishvanishvan‧ish /ˈvænɪʃ/ ●●○ verb [intransitive] 1 DISAPPEARto disappear suddenly, especially in a way that cannot be easily explained My keys were here a minute ago but now they’ve vanished.vanish without (a) trace/vanish off the face of the earth (=disappear so that no sign remains) The youngster vanished without a trace one day and has never been found. The bird vanished from sight. She seemed to have just vanished into thin air (=suddenly disappeared in a very mysterious way).► see thesaurus at disappear2 DISAPPEARto suddenly stop existing SYN disappearvanish from By the 1930s, the wolf had vanished from the American West. Public support for the prime minister has now vanished.→ See Verb table
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vanish• All hopes of finding the boy alive have vanished.• When she returned, her car had vanished.• Once it began it would go on for days, and then as inexplicably vanish.• The pain in his arm and neck had vanished.• Statistics show that Santa Clara's farmland is vanishing.• The snow flakes vanished as they touched the ground.• The Shatin rice fields have long vanished beneath a new town of skyscrapers and motorways.• Smith vanished from Heathrow Airport in 1969 and is believed to be living in Florida.• The plane vanished from radar screens soon after taking off.• Within a few seconds it flew on again, vanishing from sight and hearing.• Before she could scream, the man had vanished into the night.• The last of the police cars sped past and vanished into the storm.• The company that supplied the missing cargo seems to have vanished into thin air.• Like so many dance crazes, the "moonwalk' was popular for a while in the clubs, then vanished without a trace.vanished into thin air• A woman friend saw her driving out of town a few minutes later; after that she just vanished into thin air.• It was almost as if he'd vanished into thin air.• Maybe each and every one of them had vanished into thin air.Origin vanish (1300-1400) Old French evanir, from Vulgar Latin exvanire, from Latin evanescere; → EVANESCENT 