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evanish

evanish verb: to vanish.

Verb

evanish (third-person singular simple present evanishes, present participle evanishing, simple past and past participle evanished)

  1. (archaic, intransitive, often, poetic) To vanish.
    • Or like the rainbow's lovely form,
      Evanishing amid the storm.1790, Robert Burns, Tam o'Shanter
    • So does hope spring from the burning passions, which consume their home and themselves—so does it wander through the future, making its own charmed path—and so does it evanish away: lost in the horizon, it grows at last too faint for outline.1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXV, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 271

Forms of evanish

third-person singular presentevanishes
present participleevanishing
past participleevanished
pastevanished

Origin of evanish

From Middle English [Term?], from Old French esvanir, compare Latin evanescere. See evanesce, vanish.

Words formed from evanish

Questions about evanish

What does evanish mean?
Evanish means to vanish.
What part of speech is evanish?
Evanish is a verb.
What is the past tense of evanish?
The past tense of evanish is evanished.

Words near evanish in the dictionary

  1. evangely
  2. evangile
  3. evanid
  4. evaniid
  5. evaniids
  6. evanish
  7. evanished
  8. evanishes
  9. evanishing
  10. evanishment
  11. evanishments

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