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Definition of Vanish
Vanish

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.

To be annihilated or lost; to pass away.

The brief terminal part of vowel or vocal element, differing more or less in quality from the main part; as, a as in ale ordinarily ends with a vanish of i as in ill, o as in old with a vanish of oo as in foot.

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Vanish Quotations

Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn't argue with that; I'm right and I will be proved right. We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first - rock and roll or Christianity.
John Lennon

Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
Thomas Jefferson

If we could see ourselves as others see us, we would vanish on the spot.
Emile M. Cioran

I never understood why when you died, you didn't just vanish, everything could just keep going on the way it was only you just wouldn't be there. I always thought I'd like my own tombstone to be blank. No epitaph, and no name. Well, actually, I'd like it to say 'figment.'
Andy Warhol

Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.
Jean de La Fontaine

Vanish Translations

vanish in German is verschwinden
vanish in Italian is scomparire
vanish in Latin is abeo, abolesco
vanish in Spanish is desaparecer


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