Vanished vs Vanishing - What's the difference?
vanished | vanishing |
(vanish)
To become invisible or to move out of view unnoticed.
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*: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.
(lb) To become equal to zero.
:The function f(x)=x2 vanishes at x=0.
(phonetics) The brief terminal part of a vowel or vocal element, differing more or less in quality from the main part.
That vanishes.
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*:Selwyn, sitting up rumpled and cross-legged on the floor, after having boloed Drina to everybody's exquisite satisfaction, looked around at the sudden rustle of skirts to catch a glimpse of a vanishing figure—a glimmer of ruddy hair and the white curve of a youthful face, half-buried in a muff.
As verbs the difference between vanished and vanishing
is that vanished is past tense of vanish while vanishing is present participle of lang=en.As an adjective vanishing is
that vanishes.vanished
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Verb
(head)vanish
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(es)Synonyms
* disappearDerived terms
* vanishing sprayNoun
(vanishes)- 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.
- (Rush)