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"
- Lose freshness, vigor, or vitality.
- usage: "Her bloom was fading"
- Disappear gradually.
- usage: "The pain eventually passed off"
- Become feeble.
- usage: "The prisoner has be languishing for years in the dungeon"
adjective
- Having lost freshness or brilliance of color.
- usage: "sun-bleached deck chairs"; "faded jeans"; "a very pale washed-out blue"; "washy colors"
- synonyms: bleached, washed-out, washy
- Reduced in strength.
- usage: "the faded tones of an old recording"
- synonyms: attenuate, attenuated, weakened
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