English - Etymology

Aphetic for obsolete evanish, from Middle English, from Old French esvanir, esvaniss- (French évanouir), Vulgar Latin evanescere, from vanus (“empty”)

English - Pronunciation

• enPR: văn'ĭsh, IPA^(key): /ˈvænɪʃ/

English - Verb

vanish (third-person singular simple present vanishes, present participle vanishing, simple past and past participle vanished)

1. To become invisible or to move out of view unnoticed.
   • 1920, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Avery Hopwood, The Bat, chapterI:

     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.

2. (mathematics) To become equal to zero.

   The function f(x)=x² vanishes at x=0.

Synonyms

• disappear

Derived terms

• vanishing spray

Translations

English - Noun

vanish (plural vanishes)

1. (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.

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See also

• glide

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