(v. i.) To pass from a visible to an invisible state; to go out of sight; to disappear; to fade; as, vapor vanishes from the sight by being dissipated; a ship vanishes from the sight of spectators on land.
(v. i.) To be annihilated or lost; to pass away.
(n.) The brief terminal part of vowel or vocal element, differing more or less in quality from the main part; as, a as in ale ordinarily ends with a vanish of i as in ill, o as in old with a vanish of oo as in foot.
Example Sentences:
(1) In goldfish intestine (perfused unstripped segments and mucosal strips) the serosal addition of ouabain (10(-4) M) resulted in a vanishment of the transepithelial potential difference and in a continuous increase in transepithelial resistance.
(2) Nevertheless, Richard Bacon MP, a member of the Public Accounts Committee, who has tirelessly tracked failings in NHS IT, said last night: "I think the chances that Lorenzo will be turned into a credible and popular product are vanishingly small.
(3) During the latest phase the periequatorial material is vanishing, the hyaloid capillaries disappear, the density of the posterior granular substance decreases.
(4) Peak pressures measured with the RP probe decreased to congruent with50 mm Hg and radial pressure asymmetry vanished.
(5) My scepticism has not vanished overnight and I cannot help but still be haunted by certain fears.
(6) In the case of 5-iminodaunomycin, a less cardiotoxic analogue, three-exponential decay is never observed and a fast-decaying component, pi approximately 0.2 ns, is already present at low r and vanishes for r greater than 0.5.
(7) Only 4 women had side-effects during the first weeks of treatment, and these vanished despite continued cabergoline administration at the same or reduced, but still effective, doses.
(8) The concept of the vanishing optotype chart offers alternative test targets, while utilizing the technique of preferential looking.
(9) And this isn’t a thrill confined to some mythical vanished golden age.
(10) He also thought autism was “vanishingly rare”, and affected only children – “he didn’t even consider the existence of autistic adults”.
(11) Does this count as campaigning?” “When was the last time you flipped a steak?” “What does it feel like to be in Iowa?” “Can you bring the reporters some meat?” “Are you running, Hillary,” one reporter shouted, finally, “from us?” Then Bill and Hillary disappeared around the corner; three quarters of the media scrum vanished, deflated.
(12) Intermediate-sized filaments which had been clearly shown in aged transparent normal cortices, virtually vanished in the opacified nuclei in contrast to microfilaments.
(13) The cuts affect a wide spectrum of projects: youth offending teams will shrink, probation staff numbers will dwindle, refugee advice centres will halve in size, Sure Start services will disappear, domestic violence centres will have to restrict the number of people they can help, HIV-prevention schemes will end, lollipop wardens will no longer be funded, help for women with postnatal depression will vanish, a work scheme for people who are registered blind will be wound down, day centres for street drinkers will close their doors, theatres will get less money, debt advice services will have fewer people available to help, fire stations will shut.
(14) A total vanishing of cargilage and a partial vanishing of bone, resulting from the lysis of their own fundamental substance.
(15) Leyland’s account had a mere 182 followers by the time it suddenly vanished.
(16) From the injection level to the other levels, the proximity effect rapidly vanishes while the modulus effect does not disappear until grounded level is reached.
(17) Intracellular lipids and cell alterations vanish more readily than extracellular lipids and alterations of connective and matrical tissues.
(18) We report 17 cases of a vanishing fetus in a multiple gestation of greater than twins.
(19) Reduction in the amount of carbohydrate material in the epithelial cells of the mid-gut is associated with change in intracellular localization (by vanishing from definite sites, not by migration).
(20) They are Edwardian reconstructions of earlier (mainly goldsmiths’) signs, reappropriated by early 20th-century banks, though the signs of the black eagle and the black horse, which became the logos for Barclays and Lloyd’s, have vanished.
Vanquish
Definition:
(v. t.) To conquer, overcome, or subdue in battle, as an enemy.
(v. t.) Hence, to defeat in any contest; to get the better of; to put down; to refute.
(n.) A disease in sheep, in which they pine away.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Scot has spoken many times of his ill fortune in reaching his peak at a time when his vanquished opponent Novak Djokovic, Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal have dominated.
(2) You only leave the ring, even when bloody, at the end; whether you are victorious or vanquished,” he said.
(3) His rapid build-up in Syria is not, primarily, about vanquishing Isis, although Russia certainly has good reason to fear Islamist extremism.
(4) They're camped outside Poundbury, Charles's "traditional" village (built in 1993), and the only way they will be vanquished is if Charles takes his blunderbuss and heads into the forest to execute some of them.
(5) On a night when Jerome Sinclair came off the bench to become Liverpool's youngest ever player at the age of 16 years and six days – he is so new to the scene that the club got his christian name wrong on the team-sheet and put him down as Jordan – Nuri Sahin endeared himself to the travelling supporters with two goals to help the holders vanquish West Brom and secure a place in the last 16, where Rodgers will come up against Swansea City, his former club.
(6) Using armoured vehicles supplied by the US to the vanquished Iraqi army, Isis has taken 12 villages in the Aleppo countryside in the past fortnight and is threatening to turn its guns on the opposition at the same time as it tries to engage the Syrian regime.
(7) Recall that "three dozen" -- that's "three dozen" -- current and former Obama aides ran to the New York Times in May to heap praise on Obama's supposedly judicious though resolute use of drones to vanquish America's enemies.
(8) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Hillary Clinton: I’ve had more votes than ‘disturbing’ Donald Trump For Clinton, the five states voting on Tuesday offer a chance to vanquish the Vermont senator, and his unexpectedly strong leftwing challenge, with a more optimistic diagnosis.
(9) The plotters are biding their time, not vanquished.
(10) More pertinent will be the ramifications of this result for victors and vanquished in the weeks ahead.
(11) One of the last areas of mental competition in which humanity had an advantage over machines will have been vanquished.
(12) Although Adili Wuxor has never vanquished any ghosts, his rise to national stardom has, for many Uighurs, comparable significance.
(13) Hypertension and ischemic heart disease vanquished many of the survivors of the seige of Leningrad.
(14) How should we go about making sense of an obscurantist crime the better to vanquish it?
(15) There was also nostalgia for simpler times in the form of the immense popularity of western films and radio shows, like The Lone Ranger , in which heroes were easily identifiable, problems were solved with a quick fight and villains easily identified and eventually vanquished.
(16) Twenty-seven Colonials came to the plate and the Virginia pitcher vanquished them all, pitching a perfect game.
(17) Why should the leader, having vanquished his enemies, reward their failure with any kind of institutional veto over appointments?
(18) The novel reads like a manifesto for his obsessions: London, both everyday and arcane; a radical political sensibility; and a determination to resist the standard tropes of fantasy whereby quests are followed, chosen ones fulfil their destiny and evil is vanquished.
(19) Italy had never before conquered on penalties in the World Cup finals and were even vanquished by France in that fashion at the quarter-final stage eight years ago.
(20) Little wonder, then, that after Republican candidate Donald Trump won the nomination in South Carolina – seizing the lead and vanquishing competitor Jeb Bush – his first stop to boast was at a convention center in Atlanta.