What is the meaning of fade?

noun

• A golf shot that curves to the right for a right-handed golfer.
  • usage: "he took lessons to cure his slicing"
  • synonyms: slice, slicing
• Gradually ceasing to be visible.
  • synonyms: disappearance

verb

• Become less clearly visible or distinguishable; disappear gradually or seemingly.
  • usage: "The scene begins to fade"; "The tree trunks are melting into the forest at dusk"
  • synonyms: melt
• Lose freshness, vigor, or vitality.
  • usage: "Her bloom was fading"
  • synonyms: wither
• Disappear gradually.
  • usage: "The pain eventually passed off"
  • synonyms: evanesce, blow over, pass off, fleet, pass
• Become feeble.
  • usage: "The prisoner has be languishing for years in the dungeon"
  • synonyms: languish