Vanished

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
vanished
    adj 1: having passed out of existence; "vanished civilizations"
    
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Vanish \Van"ish\ (v[a^]n"[i^]sh), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Vanished}
   (v[a^]n"[i^]sht); p. pr. & vb. n. {Vanishing}.] [OE.
   vanissen, OF. vanir (in comp.): cf. OF. envanir, esvanir,
   esvanu["i]r, F. s'['e]vanouir; fr. L. vanus empty, vain; cf.
   L. vanescere, evanescere, to vanish. See {Vain}, and cf.
   {Evanescent},{-ish}.]
   [1913 Webster]
   1. 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.
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            The horse vanished . . . out of sight. --Chaucer.
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            Go; vanish into air; away!            --Shak.
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            The champions vanished from their posts with the
            speed of lightning.                   --Sir W.
                                                  Scott.
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            Gliding from the twilight past to vanish among
            realities.                            --Hawthorne.
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   2. To be annihilated or lost; to pass away. "All these
      delights will vanish." --Milton.
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from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
59 Moby Thesaurus words for "vanished":
      absconded, absent, ago, all gone, annihilated, antiquated, antique,
      away, blown over, by, bygone, bypast, dated, dead, dead and buried,
      deceased, defunct, deleted, departed, disappeared, done for,
      down the drain, elapsed, expired, extinct, finished, forgotten,
      gone, gone glimmering, gone-by, had it, has-been, irrecoverable,
      kaput, kaputt, lacking, lapsed, lost, missing, no longer present,
      no more, nonattendant, nonexistent, not found, not present,
      obsolete, omitted, out of sight, over, passe, passed, passed away,
      past, perished, run out, subtracted, taken away, wanting,
      wound up

    

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