Fading
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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.
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The earth mourneth and fadeth away. --Is. xxiv. 4.
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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.
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3. To sink away; to disappear gradually; to grow dim; to
vanish.
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The stars shall fade away. --Addison
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He makes a swanlike end,
Fading in music. --Shak.
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from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
177 Moby Thesaurus words for "fading":
achromatization, aging, atmospherics, blackout, blanching, blaring,
blasting, bleach, bleaching, blind spot, blocking, brittle,
capricious, changeable, comedown, coming apart, corruptible,
cracking, crawling, creeping, crumbling, debasement, decadence,
decadency, decadent, deciduous, declension, declination, decline,
declining, decoloration, decolorization, decolorizing, deformation,
degeneracy, degenerate, degenerateness, degeneration, degradation,
dematerialization, demotion, departure, depravation, depravedness,
depreciation, derogation, descent, deteriorating, deterioration,
devolution, diminishing, disappearance, disappearing,
discoloration, disintegrating, dispersion, dissipation,
dissolution, dissolving, doting, downtrend, downturn,
downward mobility, downward trend, draining, drift, drooping, drop,
dwindling, dying, ebb, ebbing, eclipse, effete, effeteness,
elimination, ephemeral, erasure, etiolation, evanescence,
evanescent, evaporating, evaporation, extinction, fade-out,
fadeaway, fadeout, failing, failure, failure of nerve, fall,
falling, falling-off, fickle, flagging, fleeting, flitting,
fly-by-night, flying, fragile, fragmenting, frail, fugacious,
fugitive, getting on, going, going to pieces, growing old,
impermanent, impetuous, impulsive, inconstant, insubstantial,
interference, involution, languishing, lapse, lightening,
loss of tone, madder bleach, marcescent, market bleach, melting,
momentary, mortal, mutable, noise, nondurable, nonpermanent,
occultation, paling, passing, perishable, pining, receding,
reception, regression, regressive, retiring, retreating,
retrocession, retrogradation, retrograde, retrogression,
retrogressive, senescent, short-lived, shrinking, shriveling,
sinking, sliding, slippage, slipping, slump, slumping, static,
subsiding, tabetic, temporal, temporary, transient, transitive,
transitory, undurable, unenduring, unstable, vanishing,
vanishing point, volatile, wane, waning, wasting, whitening,
wilting, wipe, withering, worsening
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