fade
verb (used without object)
to lose brightness or vividness of color.
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that will be taking place in the future.
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Give us a year, I thought, and the only remaining scar will be the one on my mind, and even that will be fading.
From Highways in Hiding by George Oliver Smith