fade
verb (used without object)
to lose brightness or vividness of color.
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
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Writing in his diary that January, Worsley confessed: “So breathless … I am fading … hands/fingers are forever shutting down … wonder how long they will last.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 1, 2018