Meanings
adjectivevanishing (not comparable)
- not comparableThat vanishes.
Selwyn, sitting up rumpled and cross-legged on the floor, after having boloed Drina to everybody's exquisite satisfaction, looked around at the sudden rustle of skirts to catch a glimpse of a vanishing figure—a glimmer of ruddy hair and the white curve of a youthful face, half-buried in a muff.
1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter I, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC
verb
- gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of vanish
Translations
Spanish desvaneciente, desapareciente
- desvanecienteTranslations
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- esfumanteTranslations
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APA
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Chicago
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