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1. Get lost, as without warning or explanation
   "He vanished without a trace"
   - disappear, go away
    
2. Become invisible or unnoticeable
   "The effect vanished when day broke"
   - disappear, go away
    
3. Pass away rapidly
   "Time vanishes like an arrow"
   - fly, fell
    
4. Cease to exist
   "An entire civilization vanished"
   - disappear
    
5. Decrease rapidly and disappear
   "the money vanished in las Vegas"
   - fly, vaporize, vaporise [Brit]
    
6. (mathematics) become equal to zero

Derived forms: vanishing, vanished, vanishes

See also: vanisher, vanishing

Type of: cease, decrease, diminish, elapse, end, fall, finish, glide by, go along, go by, lapse, lessen, pass, slide by, slip away, slip by, stop, terminate

Encyclopedia: Vanish