evanish

English

Etymology

From Middle English [Term?], from Old French esvanir, compare Latin evanescere. See evanesce, vanish.

Verb

evanish (third-person singular simple present evanishes, present participle evanishing, simple past and past participle evanished)

1. (archaic, often poetic, intransitive) To vanish.
   • 1790, Robert Burns, Tam o'Shanter:

     Or like the rainbow's lovely form,
     Evanishing amid the storm.

   • 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXV, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 271:

     So does hope spring from the burning passions, which consume their home and themselves—so does it wander through the future, making its own charmed path—and so does it evanish away: lost in the horizon, it grows at last too faint for outline.

Derived terms

• evanishment

References

• “evanish”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• Avinesh, inshave, vahines