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Princeton's WordNet

  1. dissolve, fade out, fade awayverb

    become weaker

    "The sound faded out"

Wiktionary

  1. fade awayverb

    To lose strength, become weaker; to wane

Wikipedia

  1. Fade Away

    Fade Away is a 1980 song written and performed by Bruce Springsteen, accompanied by the E Street Band. It is contained on his album The River, and the second single released from it in the United States, reaching the top twenty in both the United States and Canada.

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  1. fade away

    To fade away is to gradually disappear or diminish in size, strength, or importance over a period of time. It can refer to physical objects, ideas, emotions, or individuals. In some contexts, it may also refer to dying or passing away.

Editors Contribution

  1. fade awayverb

    To disappear.

    The clouds faded away.


    Submitted by zakaria1409 on July 8, 2022  

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of fade away in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of fade away in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of fade away in a Sentence

  1. Burhan Qurbani:

    I saw the park, a recreational place where drugs are sold, and was introduced to that community, if I picked individuals it wouldn't be perceived as a story about Germany and would fade away.

  2. Heidi Beirich:

    They’re often a small group of people ... and they tend to fade away due to their inability to organize. they don’t provide their membership lists. They’re not going to tell us or, if they give us numbers, they exaggerate.

  3. Gen. Douglas MacArthur, Farewell address, quoted on "We Interrupt This Broadcast" CD-ROM:

    And now, like the old soldier of that ballad, I now close my military career, and just fade away...an old soldier who tried to do his duty, as God gave him the light to see that duty. Good-bye.

  4. Douglas MacArthur:

    Old soldiers never die , they just fade away.”

  5. Prince Abdulaziz:

    The potential impact of current cuts in expenditure on future oil supplies is both substantial and long-lasting, non-OPEC supply is expected to fall in 2016, only one year after the deep cuts in investment. Beyond 2016, the fall in non-OPEC supply is likely to accelerate, as the cancellation and postponement of projects will start feeding into future supplies, and the impact of previous record investments on oil output starts to fade away.


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