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Fade   /feɪd/   Listen
Fade

verb
(past & past part. faded; pres. part. fading)
1.
Become less clearly visible or distinguishable; disappear gradually or seemingly.  Synonym: melt.  "The tree trunks are melting into the forest at dusk"
2.
Lose freshness, vigor, or vitality.  Synonym: wither.
3.
Disappear gradually.  Synonyms: blow over, evanesce, fleet, pass, pass off.
4.
Become feeble.  Synonym: languish.
noun
1.
A golf shot that curves to the right for a right-handed golfer.  Synonyms: slice, slicing.
2.
Gradually ceasing to be visible.  Synonym: disappearance.



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"Fade" Quotes from Famous Books



... is none the less deplorable. "While young she receives much attention, but when her charms begin to fade she becomes the servant of her husband ...
— Primitive Love and Love-Stories • Henry Theophilus Finck

... science soon would fade And commerce dead would fall, If the farmer ceased to reap and sow For the farmer feeds ...
— The Choctaw Freedmen - and The Story of Oak Hill Industrial Academy • Robert Elliott Flickinger

... are lasting monuments to our commercial and professional ability, and stand out proudly against a background of restricted opportunities, while the unnumbered many fade into the shadow of the horizon and ...
— Twentieth Century Negro Literature - Or, A Cyclopedia of Thought on the Vital Topics Relating - to the American Negro • Various

... enter the carriage after Mrs. Ravenel, realizing, with more anger than she had ever felt, all that the going meant. She had hoped that after a few years of the singing Katrine's heart would turn to Dermott, and as she saw her hopes fade away she shook her head knowingly, with even a touch ...
— Katrine • Elinor Macartney Lane

... I said; "the chance pressure of a riding-glove, perhaps. It will fade away, Cato, this ghost-ring, as you call it.... Give me that rag o' lace; ... dust the powder away, Cato.... There, I'm smiling; can't you see, you rascal?... And tell ...
— The Maid-At-Arms • Robert W. Chambers


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