fade[verb]Synonyms:- pale, bleach, discolour, lose colour, wash out
- dwindle, decline, die away, disappear, dissolve, melt away, vanish, wane
Contrasted words: intensify, eternalize, immortalize, perpetuate
Related Idioms: fade like a shadow
Related Words: deliquesce,
dissolve,
melt,
abate,
diminish,
dwindle,
ebb,
lessen,
moderate,
wane,
attenuate,
rarefy,
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fade /feɪd/
verb[
Date: 1300-1400;
Language: French;
Origin: fader, from Latin fatuus; ⇒ fatuous]
1. [intransitive] (
also fade away) to gradually disappear:
Hopes of a peace settlement are beginning to fade. Over the years her beauty had faded a little.2. [intransitive and transitive] to lose colour and brightness, or to make something do this:
the fading evening light a pair of faded jeans The sun had faded the curtains.3. [intransitive] (
also fade away) to become weaker physically, especially so that you become very ill or die
4. [intransitive] if a team fades, it stops playing as well as it did before
5. fade into insignificance to seem unimportant:
Our problems fade into insignificance when compared with those of the people here.fade in phrasal verb to appear slowly or become louder, or to make a picture or sound do this
fade something ↔ in Additional background sound is faded in at the beginning of the shot.—ˈfade-in noun [countable]fade out phrasal verb to disappear slowly or become quieter, or to make a picture or sound do this
fade something ↔ out He slid a control to fade out the music.—ˈfade-out noun [countable] [TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲