Vanish
verb
To disappear suddenly and completely.
The magician made the rabbit vanish into thin air.
Often appears as...
- vanish into thin air
- vanish without a trace
verb
To stop existing or being visible.
The sun vanished behind the clouds.
Often appears as...
- vanish into oblivion
- vanish from view
verb
To stop existing or operating.
Many small businesses vanished during the recession.
Often appears as...
- vanish overnight
- vanish from the market
verb
To disappear suddenly and completely.
The magician made the rabbit vanish into thin air.
Often appears as...
- vanish into thin air
- vanish without a trace
verb
To stop existing or being visible.
The sun vanished behind the clouds.
Often appears as...
- vanish into oblivion
- vanish from view
verb
To stop existing or operating.
Many small businesses vanished during the recession.
Often appears as...
- vanish overnight
- vanish from the market
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Pro Tip 1/3Sudden Disappearance
Use 'vanish' to express something disappearing quickly and unexpectedly.
The car vanished around the corner.
Pro Tip 2/3Mystery Emphasis
'Vanish' often implies a mysterious or magical quality to the disappearance.
The ancient city seemed to have vanished without a trace.
Pro Tip 3/3No Physical Evidence
When something 'vanishes', it leaves no physical evidence behind.
Her smile vanished as quickly as it appeared.
Pro Tip 1/3Sudden Disappearance
Use 'vanish' to express something disappearing quickly and unexpectedly.
The car vanished around the corner.
Pro Tip 2/3Mystery Emphasis
'Vanish' often implies a mysterious or magical quality to the disappearance.
The ancient city seemed to have vanished without a trace.
Pro Tip 3/3No Physical Evidence
When something 'vanishes', it leaves no physical evidence behind.
Her smile vanished as quickly as it appeared.
Pro Tip 1/3Sudden Disappearance
Use 'vanish' to express something disappearing quickly and unexpectedly.
The car vanished around the corner.
Pro Tip 2/3Mystery Emphasis
'Vanish' often implies a mysterious or magical quality to the disappearance.
The ancient city seemed to have vanished without a trace.
Pro Tip 3/3No Physical Evidence
When something 'vanishes', it leaves no physical evidence behind.
Her smile vanished as quickly as it appeared.
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The game that can give...
within just a couple days of starting to play, that fog of depression and anxiety went away. It just vanished. It felt like a miracle. Now it wasn't a miracle cure for the headaches or the cognitive symptoms. That lasted for more than a year, and it was the hardest year of my life by far.
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Why we make bad...
Now, why in the world do you get this pattern of results? These guys can tell us. What you see here are two lads, one of them larger than the the fireman and the fiddler. They are going to recede towards the vanishing point in the horizon, and I want you to notice two things.
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The art of the metaphor...
Even as you see that though, some part of you recognizes in the image a small portrait of what it's like to live in this world of change and time, our human fate is to vanish, as surely as that small cricket will, and still, we do what it does. We live, we sing.
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The mathematics of...
One is that parallel lines, like these, can only be drawn as parallel if they're parallel to the plane of the canvas. Otherwise, they need to be drawn converging to a common point known as the vanishing point. So that's a standard perspective drawing.
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The habits of happiness...
It looks very menacing, like a billowing monsoon cloud or thunderstorm. We think we could sit on the cloud, but if you go there, it's just mist. Likewise, if you look at the thought of anger, it will vanish like frost under the morning sun.
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Kailash Satyarthi: How...
and the law of nature is that energy can never be created and never be vanished, can never be destroyed. So why can't the energy of anger be translated and harnessed to create a better and beautiful world, a more just and equitable world?
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The building of...
new attitude the set back eight years earlier had driven him into deeper creative thinking he started inventing things first a machine like this to rediscover perspective drawing and the vanishing point and it's still used the vanishing
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Titanic's Graveyard PIPE...
the animals quickly found them removed their flesh and the deep sea is under saturated in calcium carbonate so it literally dissolved all the bones takes about five years but the entire skeleton of a human at those depths will vanish
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Girl's Rite of Passage PIPE...
community gathers acknowledging that this girl has earned the right to live as a woman of the tribe as an Apache woman - inna serves as a symbol of her culture renewing and protecting a way of life that's in danger of vanishing
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Sea Otters Hold Hands To...
As the ice vanishes more kelp beds will soon appear. The otters can enjoy the upcoming summer in peace.
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The game that can give...
within just a couple days of starting to play, that fog of depression and anxiety went away. It just vanished. It felt like a miracle. Now it wasn't a miracle cure for the headaches or the cognitive symptoms. That lasted for more than a year, and it was the hardest year of my life by far.
Video examples
Why we make bad...
Now, why in the world do you get this pattern of results? These guys can tell us. What you see here are two lads, one of them larger than the the fireman and the fiddler. They are going to recede towards the vanishing point in the horizon, and I want you to notice two things.
Video examples
The art of the metaphor...
Even as you see that though, some part of you recognizes in the image a small portrait of what it's like to live in this world of change and time, our human fate is to vanish, as surely as that small cricket will, and still, we do what it does. We live, we sing.
Video examples
The mathematics of...
One is that parallel lines, like these, can only be drawn as parallel if they're parallel to the plane of the canvas. Otherwise, they need to be drawn converging to a common point known as the vanishing point. So that's a standard perspective drawing.
Video examples
The habits of happiness...
It looks very menacing, like a billowing monsoon cloud or thunderstorm. We think we could sit on the cloud, but if you go there, it's just mist. Likewise, if you look at the thought of anger, it will vanish like frost under the morning sun.
Video examples
Kailash Satyarthi: How...
and the law of nature is that energy can never be created and never be vanished, can never be destroyed. So why can't the energy of anger be translated and harnessed to create a better and beautiful world, a more just and equitable world?
Video examples
The building of...
new attitude the set back eight years earlier had driven him into deeper creative thinking he started inventing things first a machine like this to rediscover perspective drawing and the vanishing point and it's still used the vanishing
Video examples
Titanic's Graveyard PIPE...
the animals quickly found them removed their flesh and the deep sea is under saturated in calcium carbonate so it literally dissolved all the bones takes about five years but the entire skeleton of a human at those depths will vanish
Video examples
Girl's Rite of Passage PIPE...
community gathers acknowledging that this girl has earned the right to live as a woman of the tribe as an Apache woman - inna serves as a symbol of her culture renewing and protecting a way of life that's in danger of vanishing
Video examples
Sea Otters Hold Hands To...
As the ice vanishes more kelp beds will soon appear. The otters can enjoy the upcoming summer in peace.
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Quote examples
Pete Sampras
American Athlete
After I went through two years of not winning an event, what kept me going was winning one more major. Once I won that last U.S. Open, I spent the next six months trying to figure out what was next. Slowly my passion for the sport just vanished. I had nothing left to prove.
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Christoph Waltz
Austrian Actor
The actor is there to translate what's on the page onto the stage or the screen. So I find it important that an actor manages to actually get out of the way, vanish as a person behind the character, never to be seen or talked about again. That's my philosophy.
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Laura van den Berg
American Writer
If I'm really rolling with a short story, I work on it everywhere and end up with a finished draft in a couple months, but a novel really demands that I step out of my life and vanish into the world of the book.
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Damian Woetzel
American Dancer
If I see somebody dancing really well, it can make me want to dance. Or it could be the music. But perhaps the thing I miss the most is that when you're dancing, everyday concerns vanish. It's a unique world.
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Javier Mascherano
Argentinian Athlete
Great players are very good technically, but they also have a huge amount of character because, without it, you will never get to see that great technique because it vanishes under pressure.
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Ramana Maharshi
Indian Philosopher
Who am I? Not the body, because it is decaying; not the mind, because the brain will decay with the body; not the personality, nor the emotions, for these also will vanish with death.
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Eric Schlosser
American Journalist
It's not a question of McDonald's vanishing from the face of the earth. It's a question of these companies assuming some more responsibility for what they're selling.
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Jim Morrison
American Singer
Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.
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Jawaharlal Nehru
Indian Leader
Without peace, all other dreams vanish and are reduced to ashes.
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning
English Poet
Suddenly, as rare things will, it vanished.
Quote examples
Pete Sampras
American Athlete
After I went through two years of not winning an event, what kept me going was winning one more major. Once I won that last U.S. Open, I spent the next six months trying to figure out what was next. Slowly my passion for the sport just vanished. I had nothing left to prove.
Quote examples
Christoph Waltz
Austrian Actor
The actor is there to translate what's on the page onto the stage or the screen. So I find it important that an actor manages to actually get out of the way, vanish as a person behind the character, never to be seen or talked about again. That's my philosophy.
Quote examples
Laura van den Berg
American Writer
If I'm really rolling with a short story, I work on it everywhere and end up with a finished draft in a couple months, but a novel really demands that I step out of my life and vanish into the world of the book.
Quote examples
Damian Woetzel
American Dancer
If I see somebody dancing really well, it can make me want to dance. Or it could be the music. But perhaps the thing I miss the most is that when you're dancing, everyday concerns vanish. It's a unique world.
Quote examples
Javier Mascherano
Argentinian Athlete
Great players are very good technically, but they also have a huge amount of character because, without it, you will never get to see that great technique because it vanishes under pressure.
Quote examples
Ramana Maharshi
Indian Philosopher
Who am I? Not the body, because it is decaying; not the mind, because the brain will decay with the body; not the personality, nor the emotions, for these also will vanish with death.
Quote examples
Eric Schlosser
American Journalist
It's not a question of McDonald's vanishing from the face of the earth. It's a question of these companies assuming some more responsibility for what they're selling.
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Jim Morrison
American Singer
Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.
Quote examples
Jawaharlal Nehru
Indian Leader
Without peace, all other dreams vanish and are reduced to ashes.
Quote examples
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
English Poet
Suddenly, as rare things will, it vanished.
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