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fade (fād)
intransitive verb faded fad′ed, fading fad′·ing
- to become less distinct; lose color, brilliance, etc.
- to lose freshness or strength; wither; wane
- to disappear slowly; die out
- to lose braking power: said of brakes that heat and glaze the lining in repeated hard use
- to curve from its direct course
- Radio, TV to vary in intensity: said of a signal
Etymology: ME faden < OFr fader < fade, pale < VL *fatidus, prob. < L fatuus (see fatuous); infl. by vapidus, vapid
transitive verb
- to cause to fade
- ☆ Slang to meet the bet of; cover: a dice player's term
- Golf to deliberately cause (a ball) to slice slightly
fade back
☆fade in (or out)
☆Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
fade
v.
To lose color or brightness
bleach, tone down, wash out, decolorize, become colorless, blanch, tarnish, dim, dull, discolor, pale, grow dim, flicker, neutralize, become dull, lose luster, achromatize, etiolate. To lose freshness or strength
To diminish in sound
To disappear slowly
evaporate, dissolve, die out; see disappear. See syn. study at disappear.
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Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Preposition: into
- insignificance: Galloway should resign and fade into the insignificance he deserves, and if he wont go voluntarily he should be removed.
Adjective complement
- resistant: The ultra modern vinyl print gives a soft smooth matte finish which is hard wearing, long lasting, crack and fade resistant.
Modifying Another Word
- gradually: Notes on a piano produce a fixed sound when played which do not go up or down but gradually fade away.
Followed by an intransitive particle
- away: He keeps them for you in heaven, where they cannot decay or spoil or fade away.
Preposition: from
- memory: It's amazing how quickly things fade from the memory.
Noun used with modifier
- optimization: List Building vs. Search Engine Optimization It seems the excitement about search engine optimization fades in and out from time to time.
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But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, likethe wind, havetaken us away.
Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey Where wealth accumulates and men decay: Princes and lords may flourish or may fade; A breath can make them, as a breath has made; But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied.
O, for a draught of vintage! that hath been Cooled a long age in the deep-delved earth, Tasting of Flora and the country green, Dance, and Proven c° al song, and sunburnt mirth! O for a beaker full of the warm South, Full of the true, the blushful Hippocrene, With beaded bubbles winking at the brim, And purple-stained mouth; That I might drink, and leave the world unseen, And with thee fade away into the forest dim.
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