evanescev.
/ɛvəˈnɛs/ intransitive. To fade out of sight, ‘melt into thin air’, disappear; chiefly figurative. Also in scientific use, To disappear, become effaced; said e.g. of markings or organs in plants, or of the edge of a polyhedron when two adjacent faces are made to rotate into one plane.
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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > invisibility > be or become invisible [verb (intransitive)] > vanish or disappear
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to fall awayc1443
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melt?1567
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to vanish (melt, etc.) into thin aira1616
dissipate1626
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to foam off1826
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to step out1844
evanesce1855
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to go to the winds1884
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to do a disappearing act1913
to go west1916
to do (or take) a fade1949
to phase out1970
1855 F. W. Faber Growth in Holiness (ed. 2) xxiii. 446 As soon as they [sc. spiritual favours] are known they will evanesce.
1856 T. De Quincey Confessions Eng. Opium-eater (rev. ed.) in Select. Grave & Gay V. 59 A single psychological discovery, therefore, caused my musical anticipations to evanesce.
1857 W. Whewell Hist. Inductive Sci. (ed. 3) III. 366 The intermediate corolla having evanesced.
1875 B. Jowett in tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) I. Introd. 77 This general notion..evanesces before the dialectic of Socrates.
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