KJV Dictionary Definition: fade

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.

faded

FA'DED, pp. Become less vivid, as color; withered; decayed; vanished.

fading

FA'DING, ppr. See Fade.

1. Losing color; becoming less vivid; decaying; declining; withering.

2. a. Subject to decay; liable to lose freshness and vigor; liable to perish; not durable; transient; as a fading flower.

FA'DING, n. Decay; loss of color, freshness or vigor.

Definitions from Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language, 1828.
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