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FADED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Having lost freshness or brilliance of color
Example:
washy colors
Synonyms:
bleached; faded; washed-out; washy
Classified under:
Similar:
colorless; colourless (weak in color; not colorful)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Reduced in strength
Example:
the faded tones of an old recording
Synonyms:
attenuate; attenuated; faded; weakened
Classified under:
Similar:
decreased; reduced (made less in size or amount or degree)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb fade
Context examples:
I could not eat the tart; and the plumage of the bird, the tints of the flowers, seemed strangely faded: I put both plate and tart away.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
The glamour of romance with which her imagination had invested him faded away in the cold light of fact that he was an ex-laundryman.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Within was a large room with faded red curtains, a sanded floor, and walls which were covered with prints of pugilists and race-horses.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The voice faded away into a deep breath as of one sleeping, and the open eyes closed again.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
The sun had dimmed and faded out of sight.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
Since then, only Hubble has had the sensitivity in blue light to track these elusive features, which have appeared and faded quickly.
(Hubble Reveals Dynamic Atmospheres of Uranus, Neptune, NASA)
Suddenly and at the same moment, the ebullition ceased and the compound changed to a dark purple, which faded again more slowly to a watery green.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
Its spiral structure has mostly faded away, and its stellar inhabitants consist of old, red stars.
(Hubble Sees Plunging Galaxy Losing Its Gas, NASA)
But the dark spot, which was first seen at mid-southern latitudes, has apparently faded away rather than going out with a bang.
(Hubble Sees Neptune's Mysterious Shrinking Storm, NASA)
These visions faded when I perused, for the first time, those poets whose effusions entranced my soul and lifted it to heaven.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
