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VANISHED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Having passed out of existence
Example:
vanished civilizations
Classified under:
Similar:
nonexistent (not having existence or being or actuality)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb vanish
Context examples:
All his splendid initiative had vanished.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
From the moment of my knowing of the death of my mother, the idea of her as she had been of late had vanished from me.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
From that evening she has utterly vanished.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
With a nod he vanished into the bedroom, whence he emerged in five minutes tweed-suited and respectable, as of old.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Respect, esteem, and confidence had vanished for ever; and all his views of domestic happiness were overthrown.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
Hubble found two dark storms that appeared in the mid-1990s and then vanished.
(Hubble Sees Neptune's Mysterious Shrinking Storm, NASA)
With Martin the need for strong drink had vanished.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Then, clutching it in his hand, he vanished through a doorway.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
A moment later they were on the downward slope, and she had vanished from their view.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
By the end of the 15th century, however, the Norse of Greenland had vanished – leaving only abandoned ruins and an enduring mystery.
(Lost Norse of Greenland fuelled the medieval ivory trade, ancient walrus DNA suggests, University of Cambridge)
