Definitions for fade

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Spelling: [feyd]

IPA: /feɪd/

Fade is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 34 anagrams from letters in fade (adef).

Definitions for fade

noun

1. an act or instance of fading.
2. Movies, Television Informal. a fade-out.
3. Automotive. brake fade.

verb (used with object)

1. to cause to fade:
2. (in dice throwing) to make a wager against (the caster).
3. Movies, Television. to cause (a scene) to appear gradually (usually followed by in). to cause (a scene) to disappear gradually (usually followed by out).
4. Broadcasting, Recording. to cause (the volume of sound) to increase or decrease gradually (usually followed by in or out).

verb (used without object)

1. to lose brightness or vividness of color.
2. to become dim, as light, or lose brightness of illumination.
3. to lose freshness, vigor, strength, or health:
4. to disappear or die gradually (often followed by away or out):
5. Movies, Television. to appear gradually, especially by becoming lighter (usually followed by in). to disappear gradually, especially by becoming darker (usually followed by out).
6. Broadcasting, Recording. to increase gradually in volume of sound, as in recording or broadcasting music, dialogue, etc. (usually followed by in). to decrease gradually in volume of sound (usually followed by out).
7. Football. (of an offensive back, especially a quarterback) to move back toward one's own goal line, usually with the intent to pass, after receiving the snapback from center or a hand-off or lateral pass behind the line of scrimmage (usually followed by back):
8. (of an automotive brake) to undergo brake fade.

Origin of fade

1275-1325; 1915-20 for def 5; Middle English faden, derivative of fade pale, dull Anglo-French, Old French Vulgar Latin *fatidus, for Latin fatuus fatuous

Examples for fade

But the sunlight is threatening to fade and a three-and-a-half-hour river journey back to Kisangani looms.

We can hope that it begins to fade, just as the air seems to finally be leaking out of Black Friday.

It is just because there are so many obstacles in the way of your love that it does not fade.

But for those on the Israeli right who are hoping that this deferred dream will just fade away, they can forget it.

But where all things fade, how miserable to be the one that could not fade!

Methinks she will fade into the moonlight, which falls upon her through the window.

fade at the Persian's foot, You that, our patrons were pledged, should never adorn a slave!

And when it died away, did not he fade with it—fade until the Ionian waters took him?

They started with Not fade Away and went from one song to another over a 14 minute stretch.

Ebola will fade enough for the Democrats to make this pitch by next week.