to disappear; to fade away

The girl vanished like magic.

A great Empire, like a great Cake, is most easily diminished at the Edges.

I want to submerge myself in the ocean depths, and to disappear there so as to never be seen again.

It drew strength from the not-so-young people who braved the bitter cold and scorching heat to knock on doors of perfect strangers, and from the millions of Americans who volunteered and organized and proved that more than two centuries later a government of the people, by the people, and for the people has not perished from the Earth.

Mathematics is the part of science you could continue to do if you woke up tomorrow and discovered the universe was gone.