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VANISHING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A sudden disappearance from sight
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("vanishing" is a kind of...):
disappearance; disappearing (the act of leaving secretly or without explanation)
Derivation:
vanish (become invisible or unnoticeable)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A sudden or mysterious disappearance
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("vanishing" is a kind of...):
disappearance (the event of passing out of sight)
Derivation:
vanish (get lost, as without warning or explanation)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb vanish
Context examples:
My eye still roved over the sullen swell and along the moor-edge, vanishing amidst the wildest scenery, when at one dim point, far in among the marshes and the ridges, a light sprang up.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
The long table was full, and every one intent on getting their dinner, the gentlemen especially, who seemed to be eating on time, for they bolted in every sense of the word, vanishing as soon as they were done.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
The vanishing of the lady.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The track curved and now it was going away from the sun which, as it sank lower, seemed to spread itself in benediction over the vanishing city where she had drawn her breath.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
