fading

verb
/ˈfeɪdɪŋ/

Definitions

  1. present participle and gerund of fade.

    • fading light; fading memory; fading reputation
    • With fading eyesight and reactions, the runs have dried up. That Mr Tendulkar has nonetheless kept his place in the national [cricket] side is a more dismal exemplum: of the impunity enjoyed by all India’s rich and powerful.
  2. The process by which something fades

    The process by which something fades; gradual diminishment.

    • […] the rude earth of the wall had no painted lustre to shed off all fadings and tarnish […]
  3. An Irish dance.

    • Fading is a fine jig.
  4. + 1 more definition
    1. The burden of a song.

      • He has the prettiest love songs for maids, so without bawdry, which is strange with such delicate burdens of dildos and fadings

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