fade
[verb]
Synonyms:
- pale, bleach, discolour, lose colour, wash out
- dwindle, decline, die away, disappear, dissolve, melt away, vanish, wane

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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, thin

[TahlilGaran] English Synonym Dictionary ▲

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 ▲

fade
verb
ADV. fast, quickly, rapidly Hopes of a peace settlement were fading fast.
gradually, slowly | quietly It was impossible for her to fade quietly into the background.
away
VERB + FADE begin to | seem to All else seemed to fade into insignificance.
PREP. from The smile faded from his face.
into Their voices faded into the distance.

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