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单词 vanish
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Definition of vanish in English:

vanish

verb ˈvanɪʃˈvænɪʃ
[no object]
  • 1Disappear suddenly and completely.

    突然不见;消失

    Moira vanished without trace

    莫伊拉消失得无影无踪。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Her words trailed off to a whisper as she suddenly vanished into nowhere.
    • I just wanted to punch him, making that stupid grin vanish from his face forever.
    • She vanished from the family home on Saturday, February 16 last year.
    • He had vanished from work on July 21 last year leaving his jacket on the back of his chair, his name tag on the desk and his car locked up in his consultant's parking bay.
    • His joy and happiness had vanished in that instant; his jittery, excited spirit was gone.
    • She had vanished completely without leaving one single trace.
    • We were able to watch it for several more seconds before it vanished into darkness.
    • His spine straightened and all traces of humor vanished from his face.
    • Just before he vanished around the corner, I called out to him.
    • However, after being put out to cool, the pie mysteriously vanished without trace.
    • The suspected killer, who vanished from the scene soon after the attack, was described as being black, about six feet tall, and of a skinny build.
    • I was confident until the moment I took my turn and stood there alone in front of the class, when the lyrics suddenly vanished from my brain.
    • As the horse and rider vanished into the mist I braced myself for the next apparition.
    • A distraught mother whose special needs son has vanished from his east Belfast home is praying for his safe return.
    • Afterwards the woman left quickly as the credits rolled, vanishing out into the street.
    • Her smile suddenly vanished from her face and she took a step back.
    • All he knew is that his father's money had mysteriously disappeared, vanished into thin air for all he knew.
    • It was as if she had just vanished from the house, leaving traces of herself everywhere.
    • He smiles back instantly, then the smile vanishes quickly as Ben turns to face him.
    • Police say there is still no trace of a York civil servant who went mysteriously vanished almost four weeks ago.
    Synonyms
    disappear, vanish into thin air, be lost to sight/view, be/become invisible, evaporate, dissipate, disperse, fade, fade away, melt away, evanesce, recede from view, withdraw, depart, leave, go away
    1. 1.1 Gradually cease to exist.
      逐渐消失
      the environment is under threat—hedgerows and woodlands are vanishing

      环境正受到威胁,一些灌木与林地在日渐消失。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • By the time I entered graduate school, the sense of bewilderment had vanished.
      • The message to be learnt from this festival could be that the reading habit has vanished from our homes, while books are safe in libraries.
      • By the time it vanished from daytime activities, the tailcoat had assumed the form we recognize today.
      • The great British Empire has collapsed and vanished before our very eyes.
      • It is one thing to acknowledge the existence of powerful homogenizing tendencies in the world, but it is quite another to assert that the cultural diversity existing on our planet is destined to vanish.
      • A million years before a mass extinction event, the corals vanish, more or less.
      • The US corporate owners won't be needed, and their firms will gradually find their sales drying up, their market share vanishing, and their stock tanking.
      • In British Columbia, ancient forests are vanishing at the rate of one acre every 70 seconds, or 418,000 acres per year.
      • As he put more distance between him and his family, the ache in his bones gradually vanished.
      • After several years of decline, they have vanished almost completely in the waters around Orkney and Shetland.
      • The salmon vanished from the Swiss Rhine by the 1930s and from the German Rhine by the 1950s.
      • The ideals which he stood for have vanished from society.
      • Adyar Creek is one such open space, which is gradually vanishing from the city map.
      • We are training people for a type of work that is vanishing before our eyes.
      • If the species is allowed to vanish, scientists believe it will foreshadow the extinction of a host of other marine species.
      • Natural prey is vanishing in the dwindling forests, resulting in leopards hunting cattle and people for food.
      • Springs will all have vanished, all the rivers will cease foaming.
      Synonyms
      come to an end, end, cease to exist/be, pass away, pass, die out, be no more, become extinct/obsolete, evaporate
      dwindle, fizzle out, peter out, wear off, become/grow less, become/grow smaller, decrease, lessen, diminish, shrink, contract, fade, wane
  • 2Mathematics
    Become zero.

    〔数〕变为零

    Example sentencesExamples
    • There are no non-zero harmonic forms and so by Hodge theory the first Betti number vanishes.
    • In mathematics, a root (or a zero) of a complex-valued function f is a member x of the domain of f such that f(x) vanishes at x.

Origin

Middle English: shortening of Old French e(s)vaniss-, lengthened stem of e(s)vanir, from Latin evanescere 'die away'.

  • vanity from Middle English:

    In early use vanity meant ‘futility, worthlessness’, with the idea of being conceited recorded a century later. This is the quality condemned in ‘Vanity of vanities; all is vanity’ from the biblical book of Ecclesiastes. The source of the word is Latin vanus ‘empty, without substance’, also the source of vain (Middle English) and vanish (Middle English). In The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan, published in 1678, Vanity Fair is held in the town of Vanity, through which pilgrims pass on their way to the Eternal City. All kinds of ‘vanity’, things of no real value, were on sale at the fair. The 19th century took the name Vanity Fair to represent the world as a place of frivolity and idle amusement, most notably in Thackeray's novel Vanity Fair (1847–48). Vanity Fair has been the title of four magazines since the 1850s, in particular the current US one founded in 1914. From its earliest appearance in around 1300 vain has meant ‘lacking real worth, worthless’. To take someone's name in vain, ‘to use someone's name in a way that shows disrespect’, echoes the third of the biblical Ten Commandments: ‘Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain.’ Since the late 17th century vain has also described someone who has a high opinion of their own appearance.

Rhymes

banish, clannish, mannish, Spanish, tannish

Definition of vanish in US English:

vanish

verbˈvaniSHˈvænɪʃ
[no object]
  • 1Disappear suddenly and completely.

    突然不见;消失

    Mary vanished without a trace

    莫伊拉消失得无影无踪。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • I just wanted to punch him, making that stupid grin vanish from his face forever.
    • Police say there is still no trace of a York civil servant who went mysteriously vanished almost four weeks ago.
    • A distraught mother whose special needs son has vanished from his east Belfast home is praying for his safe return.
    • I was confident until the moment I took my turn and stood there alone in front of the class, when the lyrics suddenly vanished from my brain.
    • He had vanished from work on July 21 last year leaving his jacket on the back of his chair, his name tag on the desk and his car locked up in his consultant's parking bay.
    • His joy and happiness had vanished in that instant; his jittery, excited spirit was gone.
    • We were able to watch it for several more seconds before it vanished into darkness.
    • She vanished from the family home on Saturday, February 16 last year.
    • She had vanished completely without leaving one single trace.
    • All he knew is that his father's money had mysteriously disappeared, vanished into thin air for all he knew.
    • However, after being put out to cool, the pie mysteriously vanished without trace.
    • As the horse and rider vanished into the mist I braced myself for the next apparition.
    • It was as if she had just vanished from the house, leaving traces of herself everywhere.
    • Afterwards the woman left quickly as the credits rolled, vanishing out into the street.
    • Just before he vanished around the corner, I called out to him.
    • Her smile suddenly vanished from her face and she took a step back.
    • The suspected killer, who vanished from the scene soon after the attack, was described as being black, about six feet tall, and of a skinny build.
    • His spine straightened and all traces of humor vanished from his face.
    • Her words trailed off to a whisper as she suddenly vanished into nowhere.
    • He smiles back instantly, then the smile vanishes quickly as Ben turns to face him.
    Synonyms
    disappear, vanish into thin air, be lost to sight, be lost to view, be invisible, become invisible, evaporate, dissipate, disperse, fade, fade away, melt away, evanesce, recede from view, withdraw, depart, leave, go away
    1. 1.1 Gradually cease to exist.
      逐渐消失
      the days of the extended family are vanishing
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The ideals which he stood for have vanished from society.
      • By the time I entered graduate school, the sense of bewilderment had vanished.
      • It is one thing to acknowledge the existence of powerful homogenizing tendencies in the world, but it is quite another to assert that the cultural diversity existing on our planet is destined to vanish.
      • The message to be learnt from this festival could be that the reading habit has vanished from our homes, while books are safe in libraries.
      • Natural prey is vanishing in the dwindling forests, resulting in leopards hunting cattle and people for food.
      • By the time it vanished from daytime activities, the tailcoat had assumed the form we recognize today.
      • If the species is allowed to vanish, scientists believe it will foreshadow the extinction of a host of other marine species.
      • The salmon vanished from the Swiss Rhine by the 1930s and from the German Rhine by the 1950s.
      • The US corporate owners won't be needed, and their firms will gradually find their sales drying up, their market share vanishing, and their stock tanking.
      • After several years of decline, they have vanished almost completely in the waters around Orkney and Shetland.
      • Adyar Creek is one such open space, which is gradually vanishing from the city map.
      • As he put more distance between him and his family, the ache in his bones gradually vanished.
      • A million years before a mass extinction event, the corals vanish, more or less.
      • Springs will all have vanished, all the rivers will cease foaming.
      • In British Columbia, ancient forests are vanishing at the rate of one acre every 70 seconds, or 418,000 acres per year.
      • The great British Empire has collapsed and vanished before our very eyes.
      • We are training people for a type of work that is vanishing before our eyes.
      Synonyms
      come to an end, end, cease to be, cease to exist, pass away, pass, die out, be no more, become extinct, become obsolete, evaporate
  • 2Mathematics
    Become zero.

    〔数〕变为零

    Example sentencesExamples
    • There are no non-zero harmonic forms and so by Hodge theory the first Betti number vanishes.
    • In mathematics, a root (or a zero) of a complex-valued function f is a member x of the domain of f such that f(x) vanishes at x.

Origin

Middle English: shortening of Old French e(s)vaniss-, lengthened stem of e(s)vanir, from Latin evanescere ‘die away’.

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