Fade

[fade]

When things fade, they gradually become less clear or more faint. When you wake up after having a strange dream, its details quickly begin to fade unless you write them down right away.

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Weak; insipid; tasteless; commonplace.

Noun
gradually ceasing to be visible

Noun
a golf shot that curves to the right for a right-handed golfer; "he took lessons to cure his slicing"

Verb
become feeble; "The prisoner has be languishing for years in the dungeon"

Verb
become less clearly visible or distinguishable; disappear gradually or seemingly; "The scene begins to fade"; "The tree trunks are melting into the forest at dusk"

Verb
disappear gradually; "The pain eventually passed off"

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Verb
lose freshness, vigor, or vitality; "Her bloom was fading"


a.
Weak; insipid; tasteless; commonplace.

a.
To become fade; to grow weak; to lose strength; to decay; to perish gradually; to wither, as a plant.

a.
To lose freshness, color, or brightness; to become faint in hue or tint; hence, to be wanting in color.

a.
To sink away; to disappear gradually; to grow dim; to vanish.

v. t.
To cause to wither; to deprive of freshness or vigor; to wear away.


Fade

Fade a. [F., prob. fr. L. vapidus vapid, or possibly fr,fatuus foolish, insipid.] Weak; insipid; tasteless; commonplace. [R.] "Passages that are somewhat fade." Jeffrey.
His masculine taste gave him a sense of something fade and ludicrous.

Fade

Fade , v. i. [imp. & p. p. Faded; p. pr. & vb. n. Fading.] [OE. faden, vaden, prob. fr. fade, a.; cf. Prov. D. vadden to fade, wither, vaddigh languid, torpid. Cf. Fade, a., Vade.] 1. To become fade; to grow weak; to lose strength; to decay; to perish gradually; to wither, as a plant.
The earth mourneth and fadeth away.
2. To lose freshness, color, or brightness; to become faint in hue or tint; hence, to be wanting in color. "Flowers that never fade." Milton. 3. To sink away; to disappear gradually; to grow dim; to vanish.
The stars shall fade away.
He makes a swanlike end, Fading in music.

Fade

Fade, v. t. To cause to wither; to deprive of freshness or vigor; to wear away.
No winter could his laurels fade.

Weak; insipid; tasteless; commonplace.

To become fade; to grow weak; to lose strength; to decay; to perish gradually; to wither, as a plant.

To cause to wither; to deprive of freshness or vigor; to wear away.

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Usage Examples

Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.

The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the wars of elements, The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds.

Environmental concern is a little like dieting or paying off credit-card debt - an episodically terrific idea that burns brightly and then seems to fade when we realize there's a reason we need to diet or pay down our debt. The reason is that it's really, really hard, and too many of us in too many spheres of life choose the easy over the hard.

I don't care how pumped up or psyched you are to start a new diet or a new program - that emotion will fade.

The monsters of our childhood do not fade away, neither are they ever wholly monstrous. But neither, in my experience, do we ever reach a plane of detachment regarding our parents, however wise and old we may become. To pretend otherwise is to cheat.

Like the old soldier of the ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the light to see that duty. Goodbye.

Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.

Country fans need to support country music by buying albums and concert tickets for traditional artists or the music will just fade away. And that would be really sad.

In wilderness I sense the miracle of life, and behind it our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia.

Maybe it's like becoming one with the cigar. You lose yourself in it everything fades away: your worries, your problems, your thoughts. They fade into the smoke, and the cigar and you are at peace.

There is no greater feeling than hanging out with my dogs, or just walking around the land with our horses. My rescue ranch is is where I feel the most at peace and where I'm reminded of the simple things in life and let the chaos of my crazy work life fade away.

One difference between poetry and lyrics is that lyrics sort of fade into the background. They fade on the page and live on the stage when set to music.

By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.

I think it's sad that movies and television have caused the theatre to fade as a popular art form. I hope to get young people into the theatre and expose them to Shakespeare.

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