FA'DING, participle present tense [See Fade.] 1. Losing color; becoming less vivid; decaying; declining; withering. 2. adjective Subject to decay; liable to lose freshness and vigor; liable to perish; not durable; transient; as a fading flower. FA'DING, noun Decay; loss of color, freshness or vigor.
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