0 to (cause to) lose colour, brightness, or strength gradually: --
1 to lose color, brightness, or strength gradually: --
Even wing rubbing, fading or fraying, previously referred to as a nuisance factor, may be of intrinsic interest.
Intriguingly, the expression within the epicardium gradually fades after birth, whereas robust expression persists in the valves, which largely derive from the endocardial cushions.
Look at how these new socks faded in the wash!
A dead moth dissolves, specimened old as wallpaper faded two centuries past.
Two years later the national army crumpled and faded away.
Spectacle, by contrast, relies on novelty; when it ceases to be cutting-edge, its effects quickly begin to appear faded and tawdry.
Close to the injection sites cells were intensely labeled, while towards the periphery of the patch the label gradually faded away.
Fingerprinting faded further into the background of criminalistics.
