vanish
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Is vanish a Scrabble word?
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Definition
verb (English)
1. (intransitive) To become invisible or to move out of view unnoticed.Examples: "Holly, mistletoe, red berries, ivy, turkeys, geese, game, poultry, brawn, meat, pigs, sausages, oysters, pies, puddings, fruit, and punch, all vanished instantly."; "The Bat—they called him the Bat. Like a bat he chose the night hours for his work of rapine; like a bat he struck and vanished, pouncingly, noiselessly; like a bat he never showed himself to the face of the day."; "I realize sometimes / In a web of passion we all get caught / But understand / All the hurt and all the pain / It's gonna vanish just like the rain"intransitive
2. (mathematics) To become equal to zero.Examples: "The function f such as f(x)#61;x² vanishes at x#61;0."
3. (transitive) To disappear; to kidnap.Examples: "And as if to prove it, one of his friends was vanished and was never seen again. The guy got in a taxi one night, and no one ever saw him ever again."; "It was whispered that men had been “vanished” by the Line and returned everted. Turned inside out."transitive
noun (English)
1. (phonetics) The brief terminal part of a vowel or vocal element, differing more or less in quality from the main part.Examples: "a as in ale ordinarily ends with a vanish of i as in ill."; "o as in old ordinarily ends with a vanish of oo as in foot."; "The median stres may also on a protracted quantity , slightly resemble respectively that of the radical and of the vanish , by sudenly enlarging in the course of the prolongation and gradualy diminishing ; and by the reverse"
Definition source: Wiktionary