word-vault/dist/data/cards/va/vanish.json

A lightweight JavaScript package for English word definitions and collections.

{
    "term": "vanish",
    "partOfSpeech": "verb",
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "c1",
    "verbForms": {
        "presentSimple": {
            "iYouWeThey": "vanish",
            "heSheIt": "vanishes"
        },
        "pastSimple": "vanished",
        "pastParticiple": "vanished",
        "ingForm": "vanishing"
    },
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "to disappear suddenly and/or in a way that you cannot explain",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "He turned around and vanished into the house."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The magician vanished in a puff of smoke."
                },
                {
                    "text": "My glasses seem to have vanished."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He **vanished without trace**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I turned around and she had simply vanished."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She vanished into the mist."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a man who mysteriously vanished from his home last month"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The boys vanished without trace during a snowstorm."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adverb": ["just", "simply", "abruptly"],
                "verb + vanish": ["seem to", "make somebody/​something"],
                "preposition": ["from", "into"],
                "phrases": [
                    "vanish from the face of the earth",
                    "vanish from sight",
                    "vanish into thin air"
                ]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "to stop existing",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "the vanishing woodlands of Europe"
                },
                {
                    "text": "All hopes of a peaceful settlement had now vanished."
                },
                {
                    "text": "All thoughts of leaving vanished from his mind."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Her feelings of shyness rapidly vanished."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Many of these old cinemas have now vanished altogether."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Much of the land we loved has vanished forever."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The people who built this temple have long since vanished."
                },
                {
                    "text": "This plant is vanishing from our countryside."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a way of life that has now all but vanished"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The canal crosses the site of an ancient lake, long since vanished."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adverb": ["altogether", "completely", "entirely"],
                "preposition": ["from"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "to disappear completely",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Keep looking—they can't just have vanished off the face of the earth."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "to disappear suddenly in a mysterious way",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "She can’t just have vanished into thin air."
                },
                {
                    "text": "At a stroke she could make things vanish into thin air."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "to go away or be impossible to find when people need or want you",
            "labels": "(informal)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The cat had done a disappearing act."
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈvænɪʃ/",
                "audio": "va/vanish/vanish__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈvænɪʃɪz/",
                "audio": "va/vanish/vanishes__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈvænɪʃt/",
                "audio": "va/vanish/vanished__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈvænɪʃɪŋ/",
                "audio": "va/vanish/vanishing__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈvænɪʃ/",
                "audio": "va/vanish/vanish__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈvænɪʃɪz/",
                "audio": "va/vanish/vanishes__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈvænɪʃt/",
                "audio": "va/vanish/vanished__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈvænɪʃɪŋ/",
                "audio": "va/vanish/vanishing__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "Middle English: shortening of Old French e(s)vaniss-, lengthened stem of e(s)vanir, from Latin evanescere ‘die away’."
}