verdwijnen — meaning in English
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English meaning
- disappear verb To vanish from sight; to stop being visible.
- dissipate verb To gradually scatter or disappear.
- dwindle verb To become steadily smaller, fewer or weaker over time.
- fade verb To gradually lose colour, brightness, strength, or intensity.
- go verb To move or travel from one place toward another.
- set verb To put something in a particular place or position.
- vanish verb To disappear suddenly, or to go out of sight without being noticed.
Senses
verdwijnen is used for these senses in English:
- disappear (intransitive) To vanish.
- disappear (transitive, often, euphemistic) To make vanish; especially, to abduct or murder for political reasons.
- dissipate (physics) To cause energy to be lost through its conversion to heat.
- dwindle (intransitive) To decrease, shrink, diminish, reduce in size or intensity.
- fade (intransitive) To sink away; to disappear gradually; to grow dim; to vanish.
- go To turn out, to result; to come to (a certain result).
- peter out (intransitive, originally, US) Synonym of peter (“to diminish to nothing, (originally) to refer to a vein of ore”).
- set (intransitive) Of a heavenly body, to disappear below the horizon of a planet, etc, as the latter rotates.
disappear — full definition
- verb To vanish from sight; to stop being visible.
- verb To go missing, especially suddenly and without explanation.
- verb (transitive, informal) To make someone vanish, especially by abducting or killing them for political reasons.
dissipate — full definition
- verb To gradually scatter or disappear.
- verb To waste or squander resources, money, or energy.