Definition

Verb: - To vanish, to disappear without a trace: To become completely lost or impossible to find, leaving no clues or information about one's whereabouts. Often implies a permanent or long-term disappearance.

Usage Examples

• Verb:
  • Sau trận bão, con tàu đã tuyệt tích trên biển. (After the storm, the ship vanished without a trace at sea.)
  • Nhà thám hiểm đó đã tuyệt tích trong rừng sâu nhiều năm trước. (That explorer disappeared without a trace in the deep forest many years ago.)
  • Cô ấy bỏ đi và tuyệt tích, không ai biết tin tức gì. (She left and vanished, with no one having any news.)

Advanced Usage

• Legal/Formal Context: Often used in legal, historical, or journalistic contexts to describe a person who has been missing for a very long time, to the point where they are presumed dead.
  • The court declared him dead after he had been tuyệt tích for over seven years. (Tòa án đã tuyên bố ông ấy đã chết sau khi ông tuyệt tích hơn bảy năm.)

Variants and Related Words

• Tuyệt (verb/adjective): To cease, to end, or to be cut off; can also mean extreme or superb. In , it carries the meaning of "to cease completely."
• Tích (noun): Trace, vestige, or whereabouts.
• Tung tích (noun): Whereabouts, traces. literally means "the traces are cut off/completely gone."
• Biến mất (verb): To disappear. (A more common, general synonym.)
• Mất tích (verb): To go missing. (Implies disappearance but not necessarily permanently or without any trace.)

Synonyms

• Biến mất: to disappear.
• Mất hút: to vanish, to disappear (informal).
• Bốc hơi: to evaporate, to vanish (slang).

Related Phrases/Idioms

• Tuyệt tích âm tín: To vanish without a trace and without any news or communication. This phrase emphasizes the complete lack of information.
  • Anh ta đi xa và tuyệt tích âm tín từ đó. (He went far away and vanished without a trace or any news since then.)

verb

1. to vanish, to leave no trace