Definition of Fade

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Definition of Fade

Fade

Weak; insipid; tasteless; commonplace.

To become fade; to grow weak; to lose strength; to decay; to perish gradually; to wither, as a plant.

To lose freshness, color, or brightness; to become faint in hue or tint; hence, to be wanting in color.

To sink away; to disappear gradually; to grow dim; to vanish.

To cause to wither; to deprive of freshness or vigor; to wear away.

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Fade Quotations

Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture... Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.
Norman Vincent Peale

Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.
Douglas MacArthur

And like the old soldier in that ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the sight to see that duty.
Douglas MacArthur

Like the old soldier of the ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the light to see that duty. Goodbye.
Douglas MacArthur

Night, the beloved. Night, when words fade and things come alive. When the destructive analysis of day is done, and all that is truly important becomes whole and sound again. When man reassembles his fragmentary self and grows with the calm of a tree.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

You can talk to a fade but a hook won't listen.
Lee Trevino

Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.
R. Buckminster Fuller

Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.
Bertrand Russell

Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.
James Joyce

Fade Translations

fade in Afrikaans is verbleik
fade in Dutch is vervagen
fade in German is nachlassen
fade in Spanish is marchitarse
fade in Swedish is vissna, blekna, tyna

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