fade
/feɪd/ verb B1- To hit the ball with the shot called a fade.
- To grow weak; to lose strength; to decay; to perish gradually; to wither, as a plant.
- To lose freshness, color, or brightness; to become faint in hue or tint; hence, to be wanting in color.
- To sink away; to disappear gradually; to grow dim; to vanish. · The milkman's whistling faded into the distance.
- To cause to fade.
- To bet against (someone).
He/she/it fades · Past faded · Past participle faded · -ing form fading
Verb forms
- Base form
- fade
- He/she/it
- fades
- Past
- faded
- Past participle
- faded
- -ing form
- fading
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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It was a poky, little, shabby-genteel place, where four lines of dingy two-storied brick houses looked out into a small railed-in enclosure, where a lawn of weedy grass and a few clumps of faded laurel bushes made a hard fight against a smoke-laden and uncongenial atmosphere.
A frayed top-hat and a faded brown overcoat with a wrinkled velvet collar lay upon a chair beside him.
The armies fade, the lustre dies.
She wore a faded brown sailor hat and beneath the hat, extending down her back, were two braids of very thick, decidedly red hair.
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