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 →

2) To vanish also means to stop existing, like an animal or a way of life that is gone for ever. tree →

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 →
• My pencil seems to have vanished! tree →
• The sun vanished behind the clouds. tree →
• The cat vanished under the bed. tree →
• Many kinds of animals have vanished from the Earth. tree →
• The ghost vanished into thin air. tree →
• The fog vanished as the sun came up. tree →
• The dream was over; it had vanished. tree →

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.
• Marmots almost vanished when most steppe was ploughed and came back in reserves in the Luhansk and Kharkiv regions.
• The great hall, the glass table and the little door have "vanished completely".
• The Mole remembers that good animals never comment when a friend vanishes suddenly.
• The Rat dances in the road shaking his fists at the vanished car: «You villains! ... you roadhogs!

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «vanish» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.