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Meaning of fade

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  fade
      n 1: a golf shot that curves to the right for a right-handed
           golfer; "he took lessons to cure his slicing" [syn:
           {slice}, {fade}, {slicing}]
      2: gradually ceasing to be visible [syn: {fade},
         {disappearance}]
      v 1: become less clearly visible or distinguishable; disappear
           gradually or seemingly; "The scene begins to fade"; "The
           tree trunks are melting into the forest at dusk" [syn:
           {fade}, {melt}]
      2: lose freshness, vigor, or vitality; "Her bloom was fading"
         [syn: {fade}, {wither}]
      3: disappear gradually; "The pain eventually passed off" [syn:
         {evanesce}, {fade}, {blow over}, {pass off}, {fleet}, {pass}]
      4: become feeble; "The prisoner has be languishing for years in
         the dungeon" [syn: {languish}, {fade}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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