verb
Meaning 1
To vanish.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: dematerialize, vanish, perish, dissolve
Antonyms: appear
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verb
To vanish.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: dematerialize, vanish, perish, dissolve
Antonyms: appear
verb
To go missing; to become a missing person.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
To go away; to become lost.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
To make vanish; especially, to abduct or murder for political reasons.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: euphemistic, often, transitive
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
become less intense and fade away gradually
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: melt, evaporate
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: weaken
verb
get lost, as without warning or explanation
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: vanish, go away
Antonyms: appear
Narrower terms: fall off, fall away, fall, die, go, absent, remove, evanesce, fade, blow over, pass off, fleet, pass, wither, skip town, take a powder, die out, die off, desorb
verb
cease to exist
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: vanish
Antonyms: appear
Broader terms: end, stop, finish, terminate, cease
verb
become invisible or unnoticeable
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: vanish, go away
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: end, stop, finish, terminate, cease
Narrower terms: dematerialize, dematerialise, clear, bob under
History
From Middle English disapeeren, equivalent to dis- + appear. Displaced native Old English fordwīnan. Displaced native Old English cwincan, whose causative persists as quench (“put out (fire)”).
Across languages
203 source translations are retained for this English entry.