as in extinct
no longer existing
the vanished tradition of the maypole as the center for May Day festivities
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as in disappeared
to cease to be visible
the house vanished into the fog as we drove away
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Recent Examples of vanished
Nikhil Krishnan, The New Yorker, 23 Dec. 2024
Continue reading … MISSING IN ACTION – Congresswoman who quietly vanished from Capitol Hill has been living in a retirement facility.
—Fox News, 23 Dec. 2024
But as the immediate prospects for democracy have all but vanished from China, his politics have shifted from reaction to reflection.
—Chang Che, The New Yorker, 21 Dec. 2024
Tice, a freelance journalist whose work has appeared in The Washington Post, McClatchy newspapers, and other outlets, vanished at a checkpoint in a contested region west of Damascus in 2012, as the Syrian civil war escalated.
—Gord Magill, Newsweek, 20 Dec. 2024
As the show begins, an agent posted in Minsk has gotten drunk, crashed his car and been taken into custody at the police station-from which he's vanished without explanation.
—Tom Gliatto, People.com, 20 Dec. 2024
The aircraft vanished from radar screens somewhere between Malaysia and Vietnam less than an hour after takeoff.
—Juliana Kim, NPR, 20 Dec. 2024
And in that time, law enforcement has virtually vanished, the attorney Roni Pelli of the Association for Civil Rights in Israel told me.
—Gershom Gorenberg, The Atlantic, 19 Dec. 2024
One by one, in the summer of 1984, teenage girls vanished off the streets of this historic town in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada.
—Jessica Garrison, Los Angeles Times, 18 Dec. 2024
Verb
Some visions of moral progress look forward to a world in which the in-group/out-group distinction has vanished.
—Nikhil Krishnan, The New Yorker, 23 Dec. 2024
Continue reading … MISSING IN ACTION – Congresswoman who quietly vanished from Capitol Hill has been living in a retirement facility.
—Fox News, 23 Dec. 2024
But as the immediate prospects for democracy have all but vanished from China, his politics have shifted from reaction to reflection.
—Chang Che, The New Yorker, 21 Dec. 2024
Tice, a freelance journalist whose work has appeared in The Washington Post, McClatchy newspapers, and other outlets, vanished at a checkpoint in a contested region west of Damascus in 2012, as the Syrian civil war escalated.
—Gord Magill, Newsweek, 20 Dec. 2024
As the show begins, an agent posted in Minsk has gotten drunk, crashed his car and been taken into custody at the police station-from which he's vanished without explanation.
—Tom Gliatto, People.com, 20 Dec. 2024
The aircraft vanished from radar screens somewhere between Malaysia and Vietnam less than an hour after takeoff.
—Juliana Kim, NPR, 20 Dec. 2024
And in that time, law enforcement has virtually vanished, the attorney Roni Pelli of the Association for Civil Rights in Israel told me.
—Gershom Gorenberg, The Atlantic, 19 Dec. 2024
One by one, in the summer of 1984, teenage girls vanished off the streets of this historic town in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada.
—Jessica Garrison, Los Angeles Times, 18 Dec. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for vanished
Adjective
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According to Britannica, monk seals all over the world have been hunted extensively for fur, oil, and meat, and while some species are critically endangered, others, like the Carribean monk seals, have completely gone extinct.—
Yaakov Katz,
Newsweek,
8 Feb. 2025
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According to the team, this could be a big leap towards preventing other marsupials from going extinct.—
Monica Cull,
Discover Magazine,
6 Feb. 2025
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His mother had disappeared during the journey from Cuba.—
Linda Robertson,
Miami Herald,
8 Jan. 2025
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The sun has disappeared beyond the middle-class condos of West Palm Beach and the western sky is painted tangerine.—
Miami Herald Archives,
Miami Herald,
8 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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Volkswagen is reviving the defunct brand as an off-roading electric vehicle for distinctly American tastes.—
Verge Staff,
The Verge,
5 Feb. 2025
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The project, a dream pairing of two in-demand actors in The Perfect Couple and Bad Sisters’ Hewson and The White Lotus and The Last Of Us‘ Bartlett to series, originated at the now defunct ABC Signature where Berg and Countee had been under overall deals.—
Nellie Andreeva,
Deadline,
3 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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So many firsts, gone, charred to ash, just remnants of an area that once represented Black prosperity and joy.—
Maya Richard-Craven,
Forbes,
13 Jan. 2025
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The original pioneers were mostly busy making non-hyperpop or gone: SOPHIE tragically died in 2021; 100 gecs spent years toiling to make their zany stadium-rock second album.—
Kieran Press-Reynolds,
Pitchfork,
3 Oct. 2024
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Unlawful display of registration tab: At 5 p.m., deputies stopped a motorist at Lawrence Expressway and Prospect Road for expired registration.—
Anne Gelhaus,
The Mercury News,
7 Feb. 2025
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But while your face gets the royal treatment, does the rest of your skin survive on occasional slaps of expired lotion?—
Erin Bunch,
SELF,
5 Feb. 2025
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“Vanished.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/vanished. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.
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