vanish (verb)

  • 21slip away — verb 1. leave furtively and stealthily (Freq. 1) The lecture was boring and many students slipped out when the instructor turned towards the blackboard • Syn: ↑steal away, ↑sneak away, ↑sneak off, ↑sneak out • Hypernyms: ↑ …

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  • 22slip by — verb pass by three years elapsed • Syn: ↑elapse, ↑lapse, ↑pass, ↑glide by, ↑slip away, ↑go by, ↑slide by, ↑go along …

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  • 23glide by — verb pass by three years elapsed • Syn: ↑elapse, ↑lapse, ↑pass, ↑slip by, ↑slip away, ↑go by, ↑slide by, ↑go along …

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  • 24slide by — verb pass by three years elapsed • Syn: ↑elapse, ↑lapse, ↑pass, ↑slip by, ↑glide by, ↑slip away, ↑go by, ↑go along …

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  • 25vanishing — vanish ► VERB 1) disappear suddenly and completely. 2) gradually cease to exist. 3) Mathematics become zero. DERIVATIVES vanishing adjective & noun vanishingly adverb. ORIGIN Old French esvanir, from Latin evanescere die away …

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  • 26vanishingly — vanish ► VERB 1) disappear suddenly and completely. 2) gradually cease to exist. 3) Mathematics become zero. DERIVATIVES vanishing adjective & noun vanishingly adverb. ORIGIN Old French esvanir, from Latin evanescere die away …

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  • 27go away — verb 1. move away from a place into another direction (Freq. 4) Go away before I start to cry The train departs at noon • Syn: ↑go, ↑depart • Ant: ↑come (f …

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  • 28annihilate — verb ( lated; lating) Etymology: Late Latin annihilatus, past participle of annihilare to reduce to nothing, from Latin ad + nihil nothing more at nil Date: 1525 transitive verb 1. a. to cause to be of no effect …

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  • 29disperse — verb (dispersed; dispersing) Etymology: Middle English, from Latin dispersus, past participle of dispergere to scatter, from dis + spargere to scatter more at spark Date: 14th century transitive verb 1. a. to cause to …

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  • 30dissipate — verb ( pated; pating) Etymology: Latin dissipatus, past participle of dissipare, dissupare, from dis + supare to throw Date: 15th century transitive verb 1. a. to break up and drive off (as a crowd) b. to cause to spread thin or …

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