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vanish

Verb
Pronunciation

Understanding ARPABET Pronunciation

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The pronunciation guide uses the ARPABET phonetic system—the same system used in speech recognition and text-to-speech applications.

Vowel Examples:
AE1 = cat, bat
EH1 = bed, head
IY1 = see, me
OW1 = go, boat
UW1 = boot, do
Stress Numbers:
0 = no stress (unstressed)
1 = primary stress (loud)
2 = secondary stress (medium)
Example:
AH0 TH IY1 N AH0
= a-THEE-na (Athena)

The stressed syllable (marked with 1) is pronounced louder and clearer than others.

Quick Definition

To pass out of sight quickly or fade completely into nothingness; used in poetry for fleeting dreams, ghosts, or mist.

Detailed Definition
Vanish is a literary verb meaning to disappear from sight or existence. In the poem it is used in a sweeping spiritual claim: “nothing can vanish.”
Example
Example in poetry:
E. E. Cummings writes, “from which nothing can vanish—no hope, no happiness,” making vanish a refusal of emotional loss; “The deer vanished into the pines” uses the verb for sudden disappearance from sight; “By noon the frost had vanished from the grass” shows gradual disappearance; “Do not let the names vanish from the record” shifts the word toward memory, history, and erasure
Additional Notes
Although understandable, “vanish” is a more literary choice than the most everyday verb “disappear,” and the line uses it in an elevated abstract way.; Found in the poem, In Desperate Hope by Rabindranath Tagore
Also Known As
Disappear Evaporate Fade Dissolve
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