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Adjective faded has 2 senses
- bleached, faded, washed-out, washy - having lost freshness or brilliance of color; "sun-bleached deck chairs"; "faded jeans"; "a very pale washed-out blue"; "washy colors"
Antonyms: colorful, colourful (indirect, via colorless)
- attenuate, attenuated, faded, weakened - reduced in strength; "the faded tones of an old recording"
Antonym: increased (indirect, via decreased)
Verb fade has 4 senses
- fade, melt - 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"
--1 is one way to weaken
Sample sentence:
Something ----s
- fade, wither - lose freshness, vigor, or vitality; "Her bloom was fading"
--2 is one way to disappear, vanish, go away
Sample sentences:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s
- evanesce, fade, blow over, pass off, fleet, pass - disappear gradually; "The pain eventually passed off"
--3 is one way to disappear, vanish, go away
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Something is ----ing PP
- languish, fade - become feeble; "The prisoner has be languishing for years in the dungeon"
--4 is one way to devolve, deteriorate, drop, degenerate
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s PP
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