 |
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Vanish \Van"ish\, verb (used without an object) [imp. & p. p. {Vanished}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Vanishing}.] [OE. vanissen, OF. vanir (in comp.): cf. OF. envanir, esvanir, esvanu["i]r, F. s'['e]vanouir; fr. L. vanus empty, vain; cf. L. vanescere, evanescere, to vanish. See {Vain}, and cf. {Evanescent},{-ish}.]
1. To pass from a visible to an invisible state; to go out of sight; to disappear; to fade; as, vapor vanishes from the sight by being dissipated; a ship vanishes from the sight of spectators on land.
The horse vanished . . . out of sight. --Chaucer.
Go; vanish into air; away! --Shak.
The champions vanished from their posts with the speed of lightning. --Sir W. Scott.
Gliding from the twilight past to vanish among realities. --Hawthorne.
2. To be annihilated or lost; to pass away. ''All these delights will vanish.'' --Milton.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
vanished
adjective: having passed out of existence; "vanished civilizations"
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
59 Moby Thesaurus words for "vanished": absconded, absent, ago, all gone, annihilated, antiquated, antique, away, blown over, by, bygone, bypast, dated, dead, dead and buried, deceased, defunct, deleted, departed, disappeared, done for, down the drain, elapsed, expired, extinct, finished, forgotten, gone, gone glimmering, gone-by, had it, has-been, irrecoverable, kaput, kaputt, lacking, lapsed, lost, missing, no longer present, no more, nonattendant, nonexistent, not found, not present, obsolete, omitted, out of sight, over, passe, passed, passed away, past, perished, run out, subtracted, taken away, wanting, wound up
 |
Definitions retrieved from local copies of the freely distributed DICT client/server software and databases. Click here for database copyright information. - KM |