VANISHES Synonyms: 28 Similar and Opposite Words

vanishes

verb

present tense third-person singular of vanish

as in disappears

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

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Recent Examples of vanishes In Figments of Freedom, written, directed by and starring Webber, a Marine goes AWOL, burns his life to ash, and vanishes into America’s fractured heart. — Matt Grobar, Deadline, 19 Aug. 2026 For many, August represents the last opportunity to sneak in a summer vacation before the season all too quickly vanishes. — Encyclopedia Britannica, 18 Aug. 2026 Years after walking away from the FBI, Fox Mulder and Dana Scully are pulled back from the shadows when a federal agent vanishes without a trace. — ArsTechnica, 14 Aug. 2026 If the human vanishes at the moment of execution, then fraud, repudiation, and abuse all become easier to scale. — Raj Ananthanpillai, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2026 He gets brought back into his old life when his FBI agent daughter, Rebecca, vanishes on a mission. — Shelby Stivale, Entertainment Weekly, 7 Aug. 2026 In many cycles of history, that vanishes and the death drive and the need for power take over. — Orna Guralnik, The New York Review of Books, 4 Aug. 2026 Green’s newfound intensity could merely be an early flash that vanishes by August, much less September. — Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 28 July 2026 The easy, unhurried pace of the ocean vanishes, and it’s replaced by the coordinated hustle of hundreds (or thousands) of passengers preparing to step back into reality. — Kristy Tolley, Travel + Leisure, 17 July 2026

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Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Caitríona Balfe, Kit Connor and Fred Hechinger star as members of a struggling family that begins to unravel after the mother disappears.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 3 Sep. 2026
One way to overcome this problem is using quantum teleportation, in which the data essentially disappears from one place and reappears someplace else.

— IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 2 Sep. 2026

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Stimulus trickling in Economists expect better growth for the rest of the year, as adverse weather fades and local governments accelerate fiscal spending.

— Anniek Bao, CNBC, 31 Aug. 2026
The sibling drama, meanwhile, rather fades out of view amid these loftier goings-on; the film’s narrative begins to feel devised by the old parlor game Consequences, repeatedly wrenched in erratic new directions.

— Guy Lodge, Variety, 31 Aug. 2026

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