Vanishing
['vænɪʃ]
Definition
(noun.) a sudden disappearance from sight.
(noun.) a sudden or mysterious disappearance.
Checker: Thelma--From WordNet
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Vanish
(-) a. & n. from Vanish, v.
Typist: Preston
Examples
- To superficial observers his chin had too vanishing an aspect, looking as if it were being gradually reabsorbed. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- It has plenty of spectral company in ghosts of trees and hedges, slowly vanishing and giving place to the realities of day. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- The vanishing of the lady. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- I thought of the assistant's fondness for photography, and his trick of vanishing into the cellar. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- I believe it is a mere fire of dry sticks, blazing up and vanishing. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- She bowed her head, vanishing from him under her conniving hat-brim. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- Looking back upon his own poor story, she was its vanishing-point. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- What he did was, once more to give her the appearance of vanishing as aforesaid. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- But I don't like your vanishing so in the evenings. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- I traced the white road winding round the base of one mountain, and vanishing in a gorge between two; how I longed to follow it farther! Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
Typist: Nicholas