1. Having lost freshness or brilliance of colour
   "faded jeans"
   - bleached, washed-out, washy 
2. Reduced in strength
   "the faded tones of an old recording"
   - attenuate, attenuated, weakened

1. Become less clearly visible or distinguishable; disappear gradually or seemingly
   "The scene begins to fade"
   - melt 
2. Lose freshness, vigour, or vitality
   "Her bloom was fading"
   - wither 
3. Disappear gradually
   - evanesce, blow over, pass off, fleet, pass 
4. Become feeble
   - languish

See also: colorless [US], colourless [Brit, Cdn], decreased, fading, reduced

Type of: degenerate, deteriorate, devolve, disappear, drop, go away, vanish, weaken

Encyclopedia: Fade

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