fade

fade

fade (third-person singular simple present fades, present participle fading, simple past and past participle faded)

1. (intransitive) To become fade; to grow weak; to lose strength; to decay; to perish gradually; to wither, as a plant.
2. (intransitive) To lose freshness, color, or brightness; to become faint in hue or tint; hence, to be wanting in color.
3. (intransitive) To sink away; to disappear gradually; to grow dim; to vanish.
   • 1856: Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary, Part III Chapter XI, translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling

     A strange thing was that Bovary, while continually thinking of Emma, was forgetting her. He grew desperate as he felt this image fading from his memory in spite of all efforts to retain it. Yet every night he dreamt of her; it was always the same dream. He drew near her, but when he was about to clasp her she fell into decay in his arms.

4. (transitive) To cause to fade.

fade (plural fades)

1. (golf) A golf shot that (for the right-handed player) curves intentionally to the right. See slice, hook, draw.
2. A haircut where the hair is short or shaved on the sides of the head and longer on top. See also high-top fade and low fade.

fade (comparative fader, superlative fadest)

1. (archaic) Weak; insipid; tasteless; commonplace.

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