'Fade' definitions:
Definition of 'fade'
From: WordNet
noun
A golf shot that curves to the right for a right-handed golfer; "he took lessons to cure his slicing" [syn: slice, fade, slicing]
noun
Gradually ceasing to be visible [syn: fade, disappearance]
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" [syn: fade, melt]
verb
Lose freshness, vigor, or vitality; "Her bloom was fading" [syn: fade, wither]
verb
Disappear gradually; "The pain eventually passed off" [syn: evanesce, fade, blow over, pass off, fleet, pass]
verb
Become feeble; "The prisoner has be languishing for years in the dungeon" [syn: languish, fade]
Definition of 'Fade'
From: GCIDE
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- His masculine taste gave him a sense of something fade and ludicrous. --De Quincey. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Fade'
From: GCIDE
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- The earth mourneth and fadeth away. --Is. xxiv. 4. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To sink away; to disappear gradually; to grow dim; to vanish. [1913 Webster]
- The stars shall fade away. --Addison [1913 Webster]
- He makes a swanlike end, Fading in music. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Fade'
From: GCIDE
- Fade \Fade\, v. t. To cause to wither; to deprive of freshness or vigor; to wear away. [1913 Webster]
- No winter could his laurels fade. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'fade'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abate,
- achromatize,
- age,
- ante,
- ante up,
- antiquate,
- arid,
- attenuate,
- avoid,
- back,
- back-number,
- banal,
- barren,
- be annihilated,
- be consumed,
- be destroyed,
- be gone,
- be no more,
- be wiped out,
- become extinct,
- become obsolete,
- bet,
- bet on,
- bewhiskered,
- blah,
- blanch,
- blank,
- bleach,
- bleach out,
- blench,
- blink,
- bloodless,
- break,
- bromidic,
- call,
- cave in,
- cease,
- cease to be,
- cease to exist,
- change color,
- characterless,
- cheat the undertaker,
- clear,
- cloud over,
- cold,
- collapse,
- colorless,
- come apart,
- come unstuck,
- common,
- commonplace,
- conk out,
- corny,
- cover,
- cringe,
- crumble,
- cut-and-dried,
- date,
- dead,
- decay,
- decline,
- decolor,
- decolorize,
- deliquesce,
- dematerialize,
- depart,
- desiccate,
- deteriorate,
- die,
- die away,
- die out,
- dilute,
- diluted,
- dim,
- diminish,
- disappear,
- discolor,
- disintegrate,
- dismal,
- dispel,
- disperse,
- dissipate,
- dissolve,
- do a fade-out,
- dodder,
- dodge,
- draggy,
- drain,
- drain of color,
- draw back,
- drearisome,
- dreary,
- drift away,
- droop,
- drop,
- dry,
- dry up,
- dryasdust,
- duck,
- dull,
- dusty,
- dwindle,
- ebb,
- effete,
- elephantine,
- empty,
- erode,
- etiolate,
- etiolated,
- evade,
- evanesce,
- evaporate,
- exit,
- expire,
- fade away,
- fade out,
- fail,
- faint,
- fall,
- fall away,
- fall back,
- fall off,
- familiar,
- fizzle out,
- flag,
- flat,
- flavorless,
- flee,
- fleet,
- flinch,
- flit,
- fly,
- fossilize,
- fume,
- fust,
- fusty,
- gamble,
- get along,
- get on,
- give out,
- give way,
- go,
- go away,
- go down,
- go downhill,
- go off,
- go soft,
- go to pieces,
- grow dim,
- grow old,
- grow pale,
- gruelly,
- hackney,
- hackneyed,
- hang back,
- hazard,
- heavy,
- hide,
- hit a slump,
- hit rock bottom,
- hit the skids,
- ho-hum,
- hollow,
- inane,
- indifferent,
- inexcitable,
- insipid,
- jejune,
- jib,
- languish,
- lapse,
- lay,
- lay a wager,
- lay down,
- leaden,
- leave no trace,
- leave the scene,
- lessen,
- lifeless,
- lose color,
- lose currency,
- lose strength,
- low-spirited,
- make a bet,
- meet a bet,
- melt,
- melt away,
- melt like snow,
- mild,
- milk-and-water,
- moderate,
- molder,
- moth-eaten,
- move away,
- move off,
- muddy,
- musty,
- obsolesce,
- old hat,
- outdate,
- pale,
- pallid,
- pappy,
- parlay,
- pass,
- pass away,
- pass out,
- peak,
- pedestrian,
- peg out,
- perish,
- peroxide,
- peter out,
- pine,
- platitudinous,
- play against,
- plodding,
- plunge,
- pointless,
- poky,
- ponderous,
- poop out,
- pull away,
- pull back,
- pulpy,
- punt,
- quail,
- rarefy,
- reach the depths,
- recede,
- recoil,
- reel back,
- retire,
- retire from sight,
- retreat,
- retrocede,
- run down,
- rust,
- sag,
- sapless,
- savorless,
- sear,
- see,
- set,
- shake,
- sheer off,
- shrink,
- shrink back,
- shrivel,
- shy,
- sidestep,
- sink,
- sink away,
- slide,
- slip,
- slow,
- slump,
- spiceless,
- spiritless,
- square,
- stake,
- stale,
- stand off,
- stand pat,
- start aside,
- start back,
- stereotyped,
- sterile,
- stiff,
- stock,
- stodgy,
- stuffy,
- subside,
- suffer an eclipse,
- superannuate,
- superficial,
- swerve,
- tarnish,
- tasteless,
- tedious,
- thin,
- threadbare,
- timeworn,
- tone down,
- totter,
- touch bottom,
- trite,
- truistic,
- turn aside,
- turn gray,
- turn pale,
- turn white,
- unflavored,
- unlively,
- unoriginal,
- unsavory,
- vanish,
- vanish from sight,
- vapid,
- wager,
- wan,
- wane,
- warmed-over,
- wash out,
- washy,
- waste,
- waste away,
- watered,
- watered-down,
- watery,
- weak,
- weaken,
- wear away,
- wear thin,
- weasel,
- weasel out,
- well-known,
- well-worn,
- whiten,
- widen the distance,
- wilt,
- wince,
- wishy-washy,
- withdraw,
- wither,
- wither away,
- wizen,
- wooden,
- worn,
- worn thin,
- wrinkle,
- yield