verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
disappear/vanish into the mist (= stop being seen because of the mist )
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He passed me on the trail and disappeared into the mist.
disappear/vanish/sink without (a) trace (= disappear completely, without leaving any sign of what happened )
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The plane vanished without a trace.
sb’s smile fades/vanishes (= they stop smiling )
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Her smile faded and a shaft of panic shot through her.
sink/vanish beneath the waves
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The ship sank beneath the waves.
vanishing point
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
again
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Finally, crux beneath the difficulties diminish, but runners again vanish .
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But no sooner was his name mentioned than he had vanished again .
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He briefly caught Dunn, but Dunn was dodging like a rabbit and he vanished again .
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He was on his fifth day, and Arthur figured another two days then he'd vanish again .
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All of those present who had shed their masks activated their own identical tattoos then willed the image to vanish again .
altogether
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But they appeared to vanish altogether for several years to return mysteriously to look, to whistle and back chat.
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It should be noted that Greenwald is not vanishing altogether .
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Some days, it's too misty and it's like it's vanished altogether .
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So good old classical clues will almost certainly have vanished altogether .
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This need not mean that the private/public distinction vanishes altogether but it applies to different domains.
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Another step forward and Pooley noted to his utter stupefaction that it had vanished altogether into empty air.
as
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The surviving remnants of the eighteenth-century building are shown in solid black, the parts which have vanished as broken lines.
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The old witch has vanished as mysteriously as she appeared.
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He had vanished as completely as the ghost of Masque de Fer.
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It had vanished as silently as if it had been only a figment of her imagination.
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She warned that when things vanished as quickly as this, it was quite possible that they might come back.
simply
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Western agents - including our own - have verified they have simply vanished .
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All life, plant and animal, within a mile radius of Ground Zero simply vanished .
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The money which has suddenly and mysteriously become available simply vanishes into thin air as Ruggiero Miletti magically reappears.
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Those parts of the world which were excluded from this new exchange simply vanished .
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The accused will after Allen be guilty if he simply vanishes with no intent to repay.
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Denied anger has to go somewhere; it can not simply vanish into the air.
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The Apple boutique closed down after only eight months, most of the clothing having simply vanished .
■ NOUN
air
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The money which has suddenly and mysteriously become available simply vanishes into thin air as Ruggiero Miletti magically reappears.
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Maybe each and every one of them had vanished into thin air .
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Denied anger has to go somewhere; it can not simply vanish into the air .
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It was almost as if he'd vanished into thin air .
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Another step forward and Pooley noted to his utter stupefaction that it had vanished altogether into empty air .
earth
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It had vanished from the earth .
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If they accepted, nuclear missiles would vanish from the earth .
face
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Twenty-three people had vanished from the face of the earth.
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The angst vanishes from his face and voice.
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The well-defined features of the photograph had vanished , the face had swollen in death as had the exposed arms.
sight
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Here the linguistic cocoon is spun to such complexity that the characters and narrative structure sometimes vanish from sight .
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The rest of us heard a thin squeak, and started calling for her as she had vanished from sight .
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One of the galleys had vanished from sight .
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Within a few seconds it flew on again, vanishing from sight and hearing.
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Persons can vanish utterly from sight for these reasons.
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She vanished from sight , but Hippolytus, too, was gone.
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The shore had vanished from sight .
smile
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Meh'Lindi wore a mildly blissful smile which vanished as she came alert again.
trace
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After a moment the impact vanished , leaving no trace .
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Most of these fireballs burn up or explode in the atmosphere and vanish without a trace .
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Well, Poppy vanished without trace .
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Many more vanished without a trace .
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The relationship lasted for almost three months; then Lavinia vanished without trace .
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How can an entire house vanish without a trace .
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Moira Anderson vanished without trace in a snow storm while running an errand for her grandmother on 23 February 1957.
view
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Farini vanished from public view for more than a year.
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Then it zipped away at what seemed like incredible speed and vanished from view .
■ VERB
seem
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Energy seems to vanish and re-emerge in dramatic swings.
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Certainly there is no lack of talent, though any relish for structured theatre careers seems to have vanished .
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But in spite of their hardness they seemed to vanish in no time.
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The normality of their life together, minimal at the best of times, seemed to be vanishing completely.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
disappear/vanish from sight
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Then the plane vanished from sight on the radar screen.
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Here the linguistic cocoon is spun to such complexity that the characters and narrative structure sometimes vanish from sight .
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It disappeared from sight behind the slope of the hill.
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She vanished from sight , but Hippolytus, too, was gone.
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So, since he is disappearing from sight , he has dyed his hair black, eyebrows, too.
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The rest of us heard a thin squeak, and started calling for her as she had vanished from sight .
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The shore had vanished from sight .
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Within a few seconds it flew on again, vanishing from sight and hearing.
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Within seconds of the Wheel disappearing from sight the red glow was extinguished.
disappear/vanish from/off the face of the earth
disappear/vanish into thin air
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As happened during and after the first war of independence, the money has disappeared into thin air.
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It was almost as if he'd vanished into thin air.
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Maybe each and every one of them had vanished into thin air.
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The Cheshire cat is an odd character and he causes confusion when he literally disappears into thin air.
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The money which has suddenly and mysteriously become available simply vanishes into thin air as Ruggiero Miletti magically reappears.
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Victor and his kidnappers had disappeared into thin air.
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Yet he seemed to disappear into thin air.
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You can tell these mysterious trails were not made yesterday, because of the way they seem to disappear into thin air.
do a disappearing/vanishing act
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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All hopes of finding the boy alive have vanished.
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Before she could scream, the man had vanished into the night.
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Like so many dance crazes, the "moonwalk' was popular for a while in the clubs, then vanished without a trace.
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Smith vanished from Heathrow Airport in 1969 and is believed to be living in Florida.
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Statistics show that Santa Clara's farmland is vanishing.
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The company that supplied the missing cargo seems to have vanished into thin air.
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The last of the police cars sped past and vanished into the storm.
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The plane vanished from radar screens soon after taking off.
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The Shatin rice fields have long vanished beneath a new town of skyscrapers and motorways.
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The snow flakes vanished as they touched the ground.
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When she returned, her car had vanished.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Once it began it would go on for days, and then as inexplicably vanish .
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The pain in his arm and neck had vanished.
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Within a few seconds it flew on again, vanishing from sight and hearing.