fade
to lose brightness or vividness of color.
to become dim, as light, or lose brightness of illumination.
to lose freshness, vigor, strength, or health: The tulips have faded.
to disappear or die gradually (often followed by away or out): His anger faded away.
Movies, Television.
to appear gradually, especially by becoming lighter (usually followed by in).
to disappear gradually, especially by becoming darker (usually followed by out).
Broadcasting, Recording.
to increase gradually in volume of sound, as in recording or broadcasting music, dialogue, etc. (usually followed by in).
to decrease gradually in volume of sound (usually followed by out).
Football. (of an offensive back, especially a quarterback) to move back toward one's own goal line, usually with the intent to pass, after receiving the snapback from center or a hand-off or lateral pass behind the line of scrimmage (usually followed by back): The quarterback was tackled while fading back for a pass.
(of an automotive brake) to undergo brake fade.
to cause to fade: Sunshine faded the drapes.
Movies, Television.
to cause (a scene) to appear gradually (usually followed by in).
to cause (a scene) to disappear gradually (usually followed by out).
Broadcasting, Recording. to cause (the volume of sound) to increase or decrease gradually (usually followed by in or out).
(in dice throwing) to make a wager against (the caster).
an act or instance of fading.
Movies, Television Informal. a fade-out.
a style of short haircut in which the hair on the top of the head is all one length, while the hair on the sides and back of the head is closely cut or shaved to a gradually shorter length from top to bottom, giving the appearance of the hair shading from darker to lighter.
Automotive. brake fade.
Origin of fade
1synonym study For fade
Other words from fade
- fad·a·ble, adjective
- pre·fade, verb (used with object), pre·fad·ed, pre·fad·ing.
- un·fad·a·ble, adjective
- un·fad·ing, adjective
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How to use fade in a sentence
A crushing way to lose, but in comparison to all the fades into summers past, it was a compelling way to go out.
These Wizards are many things as they enter the playoffs. Afraid is not one of them. | Barry Svrluga | May 21, 2021 | Washington PostIf your brakes change feeling on long descents, with the lever pull increasing or decreasing, or if they experience a major fade in power, it’s time for a bleed.
The novel, which is set in the United States at some undetermined point in the future, follows Klara throughout almost her entire life-cycle from the shop floor to life with her adopted family to her eventual “slow fade.”
Kazuo Ishiguro on How His New Novel Klara and the Sun Is a Celebration of Humanity | Dan Stewart | March 2, 2021 | TimeBrown outmaneuvered Humphrey on a fade pattern to catch Tannehill’s lob into the end zone.
Lamar Jackson gets his first playoff victory as Ravens hold Titans’ Derrick Henry to 40 yards | Mark Maske | January 10, 2021 | Washington PostOnce the base coat is dry I will apply shadows, fades and highlights with an airbrush.
But for those on the Israeli right who are hoping that this deferred dream will just fade away, they can forget it.
In the Middle East, the Two-State Solution Is Dead | Dean Obeidallah | January 2, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTI was briefly scared into eating regularly, but all too soon, the fears fade and my old habits return.
But the sunlight is threatening to fade and a three-and-a-half-hour river journey back to Kisangani looms.
If a Queen did cheat, her crimes fade into insignificance compared to the extensive philandering engaged in by medieval monarchs.
The Sex Life of King Richard III's Randy Great Great Great Grandfather | Tom Sykes | December 4, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTWe can hope that it begins to fade, just as the air seems to finally be leaking out of Black Friday.
In contrast to the Widal, it begins to fade about the end of the second week, and soon thereafter entirely disappears.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis | James Campbell ToddHer hope persisted until half-past nine: it then began to fade, and, at ten o'clock, was extinct.
Hilda Lessways | Arnold BennettThen I said to myself in answer to the poet, "Here's the cheek that doth not fade, too much gazed at."
The Soldier of the Valley | Nelson LloydHis thoughts grew dreadfully confused, and his confidence in himself began to fade.
Three More John Silence Stories | Algernon BlackwoodOn this light being covered again the figure would apparently fade away.
Dope | Sax Rohmer
British Dictionary definitions for fade
/ (feɪd) /
to lose or cause to lose brightness, colour, or clarity
(intr) to lose freshness, vigour, or youth; wither
(intr; usually foll by away or out) to vanish slowly; die out
to decrease the brightness or volume of (a television or radio programme or film sequence) or (of a television programme, etc) to decrease in this way
to decrease the volume of (a sound) in a recording system or (of a sound) to be so reduced in volume
(intr) (of the brakes of a vehicle) to lose power
to cause (a golf ball) to move with a controlled left-to-right trajectory or (of a golf ball) to veer gradually from left to right
the act or an instance of fading
Origin of fade
1Derived forms of fade
- fadable, adjective
- fadedness, noun
- fader, noun
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