She stood at the end of the drive to watch the car's lights vanish into the night.
He watched the sun vanish beyond the horizon.
She watched the magician make the rabbit vanish into thin air.
I still don't understand how an object can be seen to vanish. With a quick flourish of his hand and a puff of smoke from behind the handkerchief, the magician made the rabbit vanish.
The root word for "vanish" is "vanus", which comes from the Latin word meaning "empty" or "void".
Take this diet pill and pounds fanish like magic! It is hard to believe that a child could vanish into thin air. It never takes long for a plate of homemade cookies to vanish at our house. We watched as the magician made the coins vanish. The lotion is so amazing that it makes freckles vanish.
No, "gape" does not fit in this sentence. "Vanish" already implies that the magician's assistant disappeared suddenly or mysteriously, so the word "gape" (meaning to open wide) would not be appropriate in this context.
A good magician can make a rabbit vanish then reappear without the audience knowing how he did it.
Materialise
Vanish
dissapear
-Life is only transitory. Savor it. It's only temporary. -Some molecules are only transitory before they vanish.
Verb
vanish