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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

  1. verb To vanish from sight; to stop being visible.
  2. verb To go missing, especially suddenly and without explanation.
  3. verb (transitive, informal) To make someone vanish, especially by abducting or killing them for political reasons.

dissipate — full definition

  1. verb To gradually scatter or disappear.
  2. verb To waste or squander resources, money, or energy.

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