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FADE
FADE, a. Weak; slight; faint. Not in use.
FADE, v.i.
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. Is. 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. Is. 64.
An inheritance that fadeth not away. 1Pet. 1.
6. To decay; to decline; to become poor and miserable.
The rich man shall fade away in his ways. James 1.
7. To lose strength, health or vigor; to decline; to grow weaker.
8. To disappear gradually; to vanish.
FADE, v.t. 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.
Definition from Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language, 1828.
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