Mirage

Noun

 * 1) An optical phenomenon in which light is refracted through a layer of hot air close to the ground, giving the appearance of there being refuge in the distance.
 * 2)  An illusion.

Adjectives for Mirage
holy; distorted; sound; floating; vapory; exquisite.

Verbs for Mirage
blink at—; chase—; contemplate—; paint—; reveal—; speculate on—; view—; —confuses; —dazzles; —deludes; —disperses; — dissolves; —fades; —flickers ; —hoodwinks; —lifts; —looms; —melts away; —resem¬bles; —shifts; —tantalizes; —vanishes.

Thesaurus
apparition, appearance, bafflement, balk, bamboozlement, befooling, betrayed hope, blasted expectation, blighted hope, blow, bluffing, buffet, calculated deception, circumvention, comedown, conning, cruel disappointment, dash, dashed hope, deceiving, deception, deceptiveness, defeat, defrauding, delusion, delusiveness, disappointment, discomfiture, disillusionment, dissatisfaction, dupery, enmeshment, ensnarement, entanglement, entrapment, failure, fallaciousness, fallacy, fallen countenance, false image, falseness, fata morgana, fiasco, figure, fizzle, flimflam, flimflammery, foiling, fond illusion, fooling, forlorn hope, form, frustration, hallucination, hoodwinking, hope deferred, illusion, image, kidding, letdown, looming, outwitting, overreaching, phantasm, phantom, phasm, phenomenon, presence, putting on, self-deception, setback, shape, snow job, song and dance, sore disappointment, spoofery, spoofing, subterfuge, swindling, tantalization, tease, trickiness, tricking, victimization, vision, willful misconception, wishful thinking

Etymology
From

Translations

 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 海市蜃樓, 海市蜃楼
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew: מיראז', חזיון תעתועים
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian:


 * Japanese: 蜃気楼 (しんきろう, shinkirō)
 * Korean: 신기루 (singiru)
 * Norwegian: luftspeiling
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: hägring
 * Turkish:
 * Volapük: magälod

Anagrams

 * gamier, imager, maigre, Margie

Noun

 * 1) mirage

Etymology
From mirer: and -age:.

Anagrams

 * émigra
 * gémira
 * germai
 * maigre