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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
vanish .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having passed out of existence
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Examples
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Sure enough, the expression vanished so quickly I was sure I’d imagined it.
Raziel Kristine Douglas 2011
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Sure enough, the expression vanished so quickly I was sure I’d imagined it.
Raziel Kristine Douglas 2011
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The problem here is that in the last decade, global warming has actually vanished from the climate scene, and we have seen if anything a slight lowering of temperatures.
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The term has vanished from the administration's lexicon like morning dew in the Hindu Kush.
Michael Brenner: HuffPost Review: Obama's Wars Michael Brenner 2010
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Although they virtually vanished from the American scene after the 1950s, they recently made a shocking comeback in New York City (thus ending soft-furniture scavenging there) – and now these nasty critters are plaguing Illinois.
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Good temper and smiling faces had vanished from the village.
A HYPERBOREAN BREW 2010
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It vanished from the language in the fifteenth century, only to be reintroduced from the modern German language in a different sense.
The Volokh Conspiracy » To Meld — What Does “Meld” Mean? 2010
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The mammoth, my dear sir, long ago vanished from the earth.
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This nasty, dirty little war has basically vanished from the American collective consciousness, such as it is.
Memorial Day: Burning Pols in Effigy « Antiwar.com Blog 2009
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Good temper and smiling faces had vanished from the village.
A HYPERBOREAN BREW 2010
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