fade

FADE, adjective Weak; slight; faint. [Not in use.] FADE, verb intransitive 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. Isaiah 1:1. 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. Isaiah 64:6. An inheritance that fadeth not away. 1 Peter 1:1. 6. To decay; to decline; to become poor and miserable. The rich man shall fade away in his ways. James 1:11. 7. To lose strength, health or vigor; to decline; to grow weaker. 8. To disappear gradually; to vanish. FADE, verb transitive To cause to wither; to wear away; to deprive of freshness or vigor. No winter could his laurels fade This is a man, old, wrinkled, faded, withered.