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verb

Fade v. t. To cause to wither; to deprive of freshness or vigor; to wear away. "No winter could his laurels fade."

Fade v. i. (past & past part. faded; pres. part. fading)

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."

To lose freshness, color, or brightness; to become faint in hue or tint; hence, to be wanting in color. "Flowers that never fade."

To sink away; to disappear gradually; to grow dim; to vanish. "The stars shall fade away." "He makes a swanlike end, Fading in music."

adjective

Fade adj. Weak; insipid; tasteless; commonplace. (R.) "Passages that are somewhat fade." "His masculine taste gave him a sense of something fade and ludicrous."

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Etymology of 'Fade'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Fade" Quotes from Famous Books

... actual song. Then tired of Nature, he dreams himself into the skin and soul of all the great men of whom he has read. He becomes them in himself, as Pauline's lover has done before him; but one by one they fade into unreality—for he knows nothing of men—and the last projection of himself into Apollo, the Lord of Poetry, is the most unreal of them all: at which fantasy all the woods and streams and sunshine round Goito ...

— The Poetry Of Robert Browning • Stopford A. Brooke

... upon this bare bleak plain, and see even here, upon a winter's day, how beautiful the shadows are! Alas! it is the nature of their kind to be so. The loveliest things in life, Tom, are but shadows; and they come and go, and change and fade away, as ...

— Life And Adventures Of Martin Chuzzlewit • Charles Dickens

... spirit-voice, At the sunny hour of noon; Bidding the soul in its light rejoice, For the darkness cometh soon; Telling of blossoms that early bloom And as early pine and fade; And the bright hopes that must find a tomb In the dark, ...

— Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII. No. 3. March 1848 • Various

... Past, Future, glimpse and fade Thro' some slight spell, A gleam from yonder vale, Some far blue fell, And sympathies, how ...

— Graded Poetry: Seventh Year - Edited by Katherine D. Blake and Georgia Alexander • Various

... the vision of Marguerite floated hazily before my eyes as if she were an ethereal essence that might, at any moment, be snatched away. But as the doctor's words ceased my eyes met Marguerite's and all else seemed to fade but the love light that shone ...

— City of Endless Night • Milo Hastings

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