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vanishment

NOUN

disappearance

Synonyms

WEAK

ceasing to exist decline and fall dematerialization departure desertion disappearing act disintegration dispersal dissipation dissolution ebbing eclipse escape evanescence evaporation exit exodus fade-out fading flight going loss melting passing receding recession removal retirement wane wearing away withdrawal

Example Sentences

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In Wells’ writings, no argument needs to be made on the data: It’s a given that we live in an era of vanishment and homogenization, of tragic loss on an unprecedented scale.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 7, 2021

“There’s a special, thrilling kind of loneliness to the place … there’s such a tone of vanishment to the Harney Basin, of things present and absent all at once,” McCann writes.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 25, 2019

Post September, no matter how wild the drive, your opponent is likely to chalk up your ball's vanishment to that damn foliage.

From Golf Digest • Oct. 2, 2019

‘It was. You have wisely kept that ring secret all these years, and it seemed to me necessary to give your guests something else that would seem to explain your sudden vanishment.’

From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien

Oh, heart, heart, heart! would it be so to the very end and vanishment of all?

From Kincaid's Battery by Kimball, Alonzo