vanish

English

Etymology

Aphetic for obsolete evanish, from Middle English, from Old French esvanir, esvaniss- (French évanouir), Vulgar Latin evanescere, from vanus (“empty”)

Pronunciation

• enPR: văn'ĭsh, IPA: /ˈvænɪʃ/, SAMPA: /"v{nIS/

Verb

vanish (third-person singular simple present vanishes, present participle vanishing, simple past and past participle vanished)

1. To become invisible or to move out of view unnoticed.
2. (mathematics) To become equal to zero.

   The function f(x)=x^2 vanishes at x=0.

Synonyms

• disappear

Translations

become invisible

Afrikaans: verdwyn Armenian: անհետանալ (hy) (anhetanal), կորչել (hy) (korčel), չքանալ (hy) (čk’anal) Bulgarian: изчезвам (bg) (izčezvam) Chinese: 消失 (xiāoshī) Croatian: iščeznuti (hr) Dutch: verdwijnen (nl) Esperanto: neniiĝi (eo) Estonian: kaduma, haihtuma, hääbuma Finnish: hävitä (fi), kadota (fi)

French: disparaître (fr), s'évanouir (fr) German: verschwinden (de) Italian: sparire (it), svanire (it) Japanese: 消える (きえる, kieru) Latin: evanesco (la), vanesco (la), aufugio (la) Portuguese: desaparecer (pt), esvair (pt) Russian: исчезать (isčezát’) Slovak: zmiznúť Spanish: desvanecerse, desaparecer

mathematics

German: verschwinden (de)

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Arabic: اختفى (’iχtáfa) Czech: zmizet (cs) Korean: 사라지다 (sarajida)

Swedish: försvinna (sv)