fade n
1. a golf shot that curves to the right for a right-handed golfer; "he took lessons to cure his slicing" [syn: slice, slicing]
2. gradually ceasing to be visible [syn: disappearance] v
3. 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: melt]
4. lose freshness, vigor, or vitality; "Her bloom was fading" [syn: wither]
5. disappear gradually; "The pain eventually passed off" [syn: evanesce, blow over, pass off, fleet, pass]
6. become feeble; "The prisoner has be languishing for years in the dungeon" [syn: languish]

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. His masculine taste gave him a sense of something fade and ludicrous. --De Quincey.

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. The earth mourneth and fadeth away. --Is. xxiv. 4.
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.
3. To sink away; to disappear gradually; to grow dim; to vanish. The stars shall fade away. --Addison He makes a swanlike end, Fading in music. --Shak.

Fade \Fade\, v. t.

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