My son has vanished as if he never existed.

Per- sons can vanish utterly from sight for these reasons.

He held the jacket out in front of him, staring at it as if his son had just vanished from inside of it.

He became so absorbed in the conversation that when he looked up 45 minutes later, his son had vanished.

In the weeks since her son vanished, Gill has had little sleep and has been under enormous pressure.

And there's talk of an old crone and her giant son also having vanished.

As it turns out, his devout wife and son have vanished, too.

There was a last flicker of a Vulcan robe, and then his son vanished into the villa.

Rayford Steele had no idea how it would feel to find evidence that his own wife and son had vanished from the face of the earth.

The parents whose eldest son vanished without a trace on his way home from university.