vanishverb [ I ]
uk/ˈvæn.ɪʃ/us/ˈvæn.ɪʃ/B2 to disappear or stop being present or existing, especially in a sudden, surprising way:
The child vanished while on her way home from school.
We ran out after the thief, but he had vanished into thin air (= had completely disappeared).
Cheap rural housing is vanishing in the south of the country.
More examples
- We watched the building vanish under a mantle of thick grey smoke as the fire swiftly moved through it.
- One moment he was standing behind me, the next he had vanished in a puff of smoke.
- He seems to have vanished without a trace .
- All the food on the table vanished quickly.
- Where are my keys? They can't just have vanished.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Appearing & disappearing
- act
- bubble up
- come up
- conjure
- creep
- disappear off the face of the earth idiom
- do a disappearing/vanishing act idiom
- drain
- emerge
- erupt
- evaporate
- face
- form
- manifestation
- melt
- pop
- puff
- pull
- pull sth up
- wither
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