VANISH Synonyms: 28 Similar and Opposite Words

vanish

verb

ˈva-nish

Definition of vanish

as in to disappear

to cease to be visible the house vanished into the fog as we drove away

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Recent Examples of vanish It’s been more than fourteen years since American journalist Austin Tice vanished in Syria. — September 1, NPR, 1 Sep. 2026 While coal and oil nearly vanished, by last year a decades-long shift to natural gas had accelerated to the point where gas output surpassed what had been the output of all fossil fuels combined in 2000. — Edmund H. Mahony, Hartford Courant, 31 Aug. 2026 But sometime around 1965, Lahti vanished from their lives, Kalander said. — Taylor Romine, CNN Money, 31 Aug. 2026 On the day Kyron vanished, he was driven to school by his stepmother, Terri Horman. — Eileen Murphy, ABC News, 31 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for vanish

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Several parents previously told the Democrat-Gazette and other local media that the couple then disappeared and stopped responding to emails or phone calls.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 5 Sep. 2026
The layered structure disappeared completely after 50 minutes.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 5 Sep. 2026

Definition of disappear

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As his memories begin to fade, he's left in a panic, not wanting to lose everything.

— Grace Dean, Space.com, 1 Sep. 2026
It was designed to give Hawthorne’s fading downtown a boost with three major department stores — JCPenney in addition to the Broadway and Montgomery Ward — as well as numerous shops and a movie theater.

— Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 1 Sep. 2026

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