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Webster 1913 Edition
Fade
Fade
Adj.
[F., prob. fr. L.
vapidus
vapid, or possibly fr,fatuus
foolish, insipid.] 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.
Fade
,Verb.
I.
[
imp. & p. p.
Faded
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Fading
.] 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. Shakespeare
Fade
,Verb.
T.
To cause to wither; to deprive of freshness or vigor; to wear away.
No winter could his laurels
fade
. Dryden.
Webster 1828 Edition
Fade
FADE
,Adj.
FADE
, v.i.1.
To lose color; to tend from a stronger or brighter color to a more faint shade of the same color, or to lose a color entirely. A green leaf fades and becomes less green or yellow. Those colors are deemed the best, which are least apt to fade.2.
To wither, as a plant; to decay.Ye shall be as an oak, whose leaf fadeth. Is. 1.
3.
To lose strength gradually; to vanish.When the memory is weak, ideas in the mind quickly fade.
4.
To lose luster; to grow dim.The stars shall fade away.
5.
To decay; to perish gradually.We all do fade as a leaf. Is. 64.
An inheritance that fadeth not away. 1Pet. 1.
6.
To decay; to decline; to become poor and miserable.The rich man shall fade away in his ways. James 1.
7.
To lose strength, health or vigor; to decline; to grow weaker.8.
To disappear gradually; to vanish.FADE
,Verb.
T.
No winter could his laurels fade.
This is a man, old, wrinkled, faded, withered.