Thesaurus: fade

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1. a. Weak; insipid; tasteless; commonplace.
2. a. To become fade; to grow weak; to lose strength; to decay; to perish gradually; to wither, as a plant.
3. a. To lose freshness, color, or brightness; to become faint in hue or tint; hence, to be wanting in color.
4. a. To sink away; to disappear gradually; to grow dim; to vanish.
5. v. t. To cause to wither; to deprive of freshness or vigor; to wear away.
6. n. a golf shot that curves to the right for a right-handed">right-handed golfer
7. n. gradually ceasing to be visible
8. v. become less clearly visible or distinguishable; disappear gradually or seemingly
9. v. lose freshness, vigor, or vitality
10. v. disappear gradually
11. v. become feeble
12. Weak; insipid; tasteless; commonplace. [R.] "Passages that are somewhat fade." Jeffrey. His masculine taste gave him a sense of something fade and ludicrous. De Quincey. 1. 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. Is. xxiv. 4. 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. 3. To sink away; to disappear gradually; to grow dim; to vanish. The stars shall fade away. Addison He makes a swanlike end, Fading in music. Shak. To cause to wither; to deprive of freshness or vigor; to wear away. No winter could his laurels fade. Dryden.