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| Main Entry: | vanishing |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | disappearing |
| Synonyms: | fading, fleeting, going |
| Main Entry: | vanish |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | disappear |
| Synonyms: | clear, die, dissolve, evanesce, evaporate, exit, fade, melt, be lost, become invisible, dematerialize, die out, fade away, go away |
| Antonyms: | appear, arrive, come |
| Main Entry: | dying |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | failing, expiring |
| Synonyms: | at death's door, at end of rope, decaying, declining, disintegrating, done for*, doomed, ebbing, fading, fated, final, giving up the ghost, going, in extremis, moribund, mortal, on last leg, one foot in grave, passing, perishing, sinking, vanishing, withering |
| Antonyms: | creating, developing, growing, living, reviving |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | evanescent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | transient |
| Synonyms: | brief, fading, fleeting, momentary, passing, short-lived, temporary, tenuous, vanishing, disappearing |
| Main Entry: | evaporation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | drying up; dissolution |
| Synonyms: | disappearance, dissipation, escape, evanescence, fading, melting, vanishing, dehydration, dematerialization, desiccation, dispelling, dispersal, vaporescence, vaporization |
| Antonyms: | dampening, soaking, wetting |
| Main Entry: | fleeting |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | brief, transient |
| Synonyms: | cursory, ephemeral, evanescent, fading, flash in the pan*, flitting, flying, fugitive, impermanent, meteoric, momentary, passing, short, short-lived, sudden, temporary, transitory, vanishing, volatile, fugacious |
| Antonyms: | constant, continual, endless, enduring, lasting, lengthy, long, permanent, perpetual, long-lived |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | momentary |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | brief, fleeting |
| Synonyms: | cursory, dreamlike, ephemeral, evanescent, flitting*, flying, fugitive, hasty, impermanent, impulsive, instantaneous, passing, quick, short, short-lived, spasmodic, summary, temporary, transient, transitory, vanishing, volatile, flashing, fugacious, gone in flash, in wink of an eye, like lightning, shifting |
| Notes: | momentary means fleeting, brief; momentous means significant and having great consequence |
| Antonyms: | lasting, long-lasting, permanent, staying |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | off |
| Part of Speech: | adverb |
| Definition: | apart, away |
| Synonyms: | above, absent, afar, ahead, aside, behind, below, beneath, beside, divergent, elsewhere, far, out, over, removed, up front, vanishing, away from, disappearing, farther away, gone away, in the distance, not here, to one side, turning aside |
| Antonyms: | close, here, present |
| Main Entry: | trivial |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not important |
| Synonyms: | atomic, beside the point*, commonplace, diminutive, evanescent, everyday, flimsy, frivolous, immaterial, incidental, inconsequential, insignificant, irrelevant, little, meager, mean, meaningless, microscopic, minor, minute, momentary, negligible, nonessential, nugatory, paltry, petty, piddling*, puny, scanty, skin-deep*, slight, small, superficial, trifling, trite, unimportant, valueless, vanishing, worthless, inappreciable, inconsiderable, of no account |
| Antonyms: | consequential, important, significant, useful, valuable, weighty, worthwhile |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | evanescence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | dissipation |
| Synonyms: | disappearance, evaporation, vanishing |
| Main Entry: | dissipation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | disappearance |
| Synonyms: | diffusion, disintegration, dispersion, dissemination, dissolution, distribution, emission, extravagance, improvidence, radiation, scattering, spread, vanishing, waste, dispersal, wastage |
| Antonyms: | appearance |
| Main Entry: | abscond |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | run away, depart secretly |
| Synonyms: | beat it*, bolt*, break, clear out*, decamp, disappear, escape, fade*, flee, get, jump*, leave, make off, pull out, quit, scram*, skedaddle*, slip, split*, take off*, vamoose*, vanish, cut and run, dog it, duck out, fly the coop, go AWOL, go south, hightail, make a break, make scarce, run off, skip out, sneak away, steal away |
| Antonyms: | abide, continue, endure, remain, stay, stop, yield, give up |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | blow over |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | disappear slowly |
| Synonyms: | cease, dissipate, end, finish, pass, peter out*, subside, vanish, die down, fizzle out |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | consume |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | use up |
| Synonyms: | absorb, apply, deplete, devour, dissipate, dominate, drain, drivel, eat up, employ, engross, exhaust, expend, finish, go, go through, lavish, lessen, monopolize, obsess, put away, run through, spend, squander, throw away, trifle, utilize, vanish, waste, wear out, avail oneself of, finish up, fritter away, frivol away, have recourse to, preoccupy, profit by, put to use, run out of, wash up |
| Antonyms: | accumulate, collect, gather, neglect, store, not use |
| Main Entry: | depart |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | leave, retreat |
| Synonyms: | abandon, abdicate, absent, beat it*, blast off*, cut out*, decamp, desert, disappear, emigrate, escape, evacuate, exit, go, hit the road*, migrate, part, perish, pull out, quit, remove, retire, sally forth*, scram*, secede, shove off*, split*, start, tergiversate, troop*, vacate, vanish, withdraw, cut and run, get away, git, go away, go forth, hit the bricks, hit the trail, make a break, march out, move on, move out, say goodbye, set forth, slip away*, start out, take leave |
| Antonyms: | arrive, come, enter |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | die |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | wither, dwindle |
| Synonyms: | abate, crumble, decay, decline, degenerate, deteriorate, diminish, disappear, droop, ebb, end, expire, fade, fail, fall, halt, lapse, let up, moderate, molder, pass, peter out*, rankle, recede, retrograde, rot, run down, run out, sink, slacken, stop, subside, vanish, wane, weaken, wilt, bate, break down, dilapidate, ease off, fade away, fade out, fizzle out, go bad, go downhill, lose power, melt away, run low, wear away |
| Antonyms: | develop, flourish, grow, improve |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | disperse |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | distribute; scatter |
| Synonyms: | banish, break up, broadcast, circulate, deal, diffuse, disappear, disband, disburse, discharge, dislodge, dismiss, dispel, disseminate, dissipate, dissolve, dole out, eject, intersperse, partition, propagate, radiate, rout, scatter, scramble, separate, shed, sow, split up, spray, spread, strew, vanish, besprinkle, cast forth, divvy, measure out, send off, take off in all directions |
| Antonyms: | arrange, assemble, collect, garner, gather |
| Main Entry: | dissipate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | disappear |
| Synonyms: | dispel, disperse, dissolve, evanesce, evaporate, scatter, spread, vanish, drive away, melt away, run dry |
| Antonyms: | appear |
| Main Entry: | dissolve |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | disappear, disintegrate |
| Synonyms: | break up, crumble, decline, decompose, diffuse, disband, disperse, dissipate, dwindle, evanesce, evaporate, fade, perish, separate, vanish, break down, break into pieces, dilapidate, melt away, unmake, waste away |
| Antonyms: | appear, assemble, integrate, put together, unite |
| Main Entry: | dive |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | descend, usually going underwater |
| Synonyms: | belly flop, dip, disappear, drop, duck, fall, gutter, jump, leap, lunge, pitch, plumb, plummet, plunge, spring, submerge, swoop, vanish, vault, go headfirst, header, nose-dive |
| Antonyms: | ascend, jump, go up |
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