vanish
The brief terminal part of a vowel or vocal element, differing more or less in quality…The brief terminal part of a vowel or vocal element, differing more or less in quality from the main part.
» The ghost vanished suddenly.
Der Geist verschwand plötzlich.
Привидение внезапно исчезло.
Привид раптово зник.
Meaning
3 sensesThe brief terminal part of a vowel or vocal element, differing more or less in quality from the main part.
a as in ale ordinarily ends with a vanish of i as in ill.
o as in old ordinarily ends with a vanish of oo as in foot.
A magic trick in which something seems to disappear.
The French drop is a well-known vanish involving sleight of hand.
A disappearance; a vanishment.
Examples
166 sentencesThe ghost vanished suddenly.
Привид раптово зник. — ChickenKiev
ruПривидение внезапно исчезло. — marafon
deDer Geist verschwand plötzlich. — Hans_Adler
Tom vanished without saying a word.
ruТом исчез, не сказав ни слова. — marafon
deTom verschwand, ohne ein Wort zu sagen. — wolfgangth
All hope of winning the game vanished.
The men left and soon vanished into the darkness.
When Tom woke up, he found that Mary had vanished.
ruПроснувшись, Том обнаружил, что Мэри исчезла. — marafon
Origin
Aphetic for obsolete evanish, from Middle English evanisshen, esvanisshen, from Old FrenchAphetic for obsolete evanish, from Middle English evanisshen, esvanisshen, from Old French esvanir, esvaniss- (modern French évanouir), from Vulgar Latin *exvanire (“to vanish, disappear, to fade out”), from Latin ēvānēscō, ēvānēscere, from vānus (“empty”). By surface analysis, Latin vān- + -ish (“verb suffix”). Doublet of evanesce.
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