Past tense of vanish
regular verb
The past tense of vanish is vanished. The past participle is also vanished.
Forms of vanish
| Base form (V1) | vanish /ˈvænɪʃ/ |
|---|---|
| Past tense (V2) | vanished /ˈvænɪʃt/ |
| Past participle (V3) | vanished /ˈvænɪʃt/ |
| Present participle | vanishing |
| Third person singular | vanishes |
Vanished in a sentence
- 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.1920, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Avery Hopwood, chapter I, in The Bat: A Novel from the Play (Dell Book; 241), New York, N.Y.: Dell Publishing...
- And as if to prove it, one of his friends was vanished and was never seen again.2011, Patrick Meaney, Our Sentence Is Up: Seeing Grant Morrison's the Invisibles, Sequart, →ISBN, page 330
- When I got back to Hawaii, a feeling of aloha flooded me, and my anxiety vanished.From the entry aloha
- The fog has vanished and it's shaping up to be a beautiful day.From the entry shape up
- After the accident, he just vanished and left me holding the bag.From the entry leave someone holding the bag
Meaning of vanish
- verb To become invisible or to move out of view unnoticed.
- verb To become equal to zero.
- verb To disappear; to kidnap.
Questions about the past tense of vanish
- What is the past tense of vanish?
- The past tense of vanish is vanished.
- What is the past participle of vanish?
- The past participle of vanish is vanished.
- Is vanish a regular or irregular verb?
- Vanish is a regular verb: its past tense adds -ed.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: vanish (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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