Meaning

6 senses
  1. (transitive)To hit the ball with the shot called a fade.

  2. (intransitive)To grow weak; to lose strength; to decay; to perish gradually; to wither, as a plant.

    verwelken

    вя́нутьvjánutʹ, увяда́тьuvjadátʹ, затуха́тьzatuxátʹ

  3. (intransitive)To lose freshness, color, or brightness; to become faint in hue or tint; hence, to be wanting in color.

    verblassen

    выцветатьvycvetatʹ, обесцве́чиватьсяobescvéčivatʹsja, блёкнутьbljóknutʹ

    lose freshness, vigor, or vitality

  4. (intransitive)To sink away; to disappear gradually; to grow dim; to vanish.

    The milkman's whistling faded into the distance.

    исчеза́тьisčezátʹ, пропада́тьpropadátʹ

    disappear gradually

  5. (transitive)To cause to fade.

    обесцве́чиватьobescvéčivatʹ

  6. (transitive)To bet against (someone).

Examples

208 sentences
  1. The sound of the train faded away.

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  2. Tom is wearing a faded blue shirt.

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  3. The curtains in my bedroom have faded.

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  4. Tom's smile faded as Mary walked away.

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  5. Tom only has one faded photograph of grandfather.

    deTom hat von seinem Großvater nur ein verblasstes Foto.

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Translations

7 languages
Русский
By meaning 4
to grow weak, lose strength:
to lose freshness, brightness:
to vanish:
to cause to fade:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
to grow weak, lose strength:
to lose freshness, brightness:

Origin

From Middle English fade, vad, vade (“faded, pale, withered, weak”), from Middle Dutch vad

From Middle English fade, vad, vade (“faded, pale, withered, weak”), from Middle Dutch vade (“weak, faint, limp”), from Old French fade (“weak, witless”), of obscure origin. Probably from Vulgar Latin *fatidus, from Latin fatuus (“insipid”).

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Forms

fades, fading, faded, faded
Base formfade · to fade
3rd person singularfades
Present participlefading
Past simplefaded
Past participlefaded

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyfade
he, she, itfades

Past simpleLesson

all personsfaded

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave faded
he, she, ithas faded

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill fade

Phrasal verbs

3 phrasal verbs

Synonyms

14 synonyms
grow weak, lose strength:weakenB2witherB1
lose freshness, color, or brightness:blanchbleach
Close in meaning

Word family

10 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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