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vanish'd

Archaic Terms
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

An archaic or poetic syncopated spelling of "vanished," indicating that something has suddenly disappeared without a trace.

Detailed Definition
The apostrophe marks an older poetic spelling of vanished, common in 19th-century verse. Here it describes the lost hand as gone forever, reinforcing the poem’s grief and irretrievability.
Example
Example in poetry:
“But O for the touch of a vanish'd hand” (Tennyson, “Break, Break, Break”); The vanish'd summer lives only in the scent of rain; A vanish'd face returned in the mirror of memory; “Vanish'd” is an archaic contraction of “vanished”; Its apostrophe helps preserve meter and gives absence an elegiac tone
Additional Notes
“vanish'd” is an archaic spelling in the quoted line, and modern readers may notice the old-fashioned form.; Found in the poem, Break, Break, Break by Alfred Lord Tennyson
Also Known As
disappear'd vanished lost gone
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