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# vanish

«vanish» in Mova's school dictionary: **to disappear suddenly or in a way you cannot explain** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (vanish, vanishes, vanished, vanishing)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To vanish means to disappear suddenly or in a way you cannot explain. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vanish/#m1)

2) To vanish also means to stop existing, like an animal or a way of life that is gone for ever. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vanish/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In stories things vanish by magic or mystery; magicians make coins vanish with tricks. In science and history some animals and old ways of life have vanished. Phrases: «vanish into thin air», «vanishing act», «vanish without a trace».

### examples

- The magician made the rabbit vanish. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vanish/#x1)
- My pencil seems to have vanished! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vanish/#x2)
- The sun vanished behind the clouds. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vanish/#x3)
- The cat vanished under the bed. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vanish/#x4)
- Many kinds of animals have vanished from the Earth. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vanish/#x5)
- The ghost vanished into thin air. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vanish/#x6)
- The fog vanished as the sun came up. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vanish/#x7)
- The dream was over; it had vanished. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vanish/#x8)

### note

Regular verb. Same as «disappear», but often more sudden or mysterious. In real life nothing truly vanishes by magic: magic tricks use hiding and distraction. «Vanishing point» in art is where lines seem to meet far away.

### In the corpora

- [More than 99 percent of all species that ever lived are extinct, but today they vanish much faster than normal because of people.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/281-extinct-forever-the-dodo-the-passenger-pigeon-the-thylacine-and-more/15/)
- [Marmots almost vanished when most steppe was ploughed and came back in reserves in the Luhansk and Kharkiv regions.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/373-ukraine-s-steppe-marmots-sousliks-great-bustards-and-askania-nova/11/)
- [The great hall, the glass table and the little door have "vanished completely".](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/7-alice-ch4-part1-the-rabbits-house/8/)
- [The Mole remembers that good animals never comment when a friend vanishes suddenly.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/27-willows-ch1-part3-otter-badger-and-toad/10/)
- [The Rat dances in the road shaking his fists at the vanished car: «You villains! ... you roadhogs!](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/32-willows-ch2-part4-the-wreck-and-the-new-craze/2/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «vanish» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vanish/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.