FADE AWAY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does fade away mean? 

• FADE AWAY (verb)
  The verb FADE AWAY has 1 sense:

1. become weaker

  Familiarity information: FADE AWAY used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FADE AWAY (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Become weaker

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

dissolve; fade away; fade out

Context example:

The sound faded out

Hypernyms (to "fade away" is one way to...):

change state; turn (undergo a transformation or a change of position or action)

Verb group:

dissolve (cause to fade away)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

 Context examples 

In older people, they tend to fade away.

(Moles, NIH: National Cancer Institute)

Most disks of this kind fade away in less than 30 million years.

(A Potential New Hunting Ground for Exoplanets, NASA)

The light of that conflagration will fade away; my ashes will be swept into the sea by the winds.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

They are dark streaks that extend gradually downhill in warm seasons, then fade away in winter and reappear the next year.

(Recurring Martian Streaks: Flowing Sand, Not Water?, NASA)

And now, as I close my task, subduing my desire to linger yet, these faces fade away.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

He answered me in a way that I did not understand, but with the sternest look that his face could wear:—"If that were all, I would stop here where we are now, and let her fade away into peace, for I see no light in life over her horizon."

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

This study shows that repetitive sequences, which are ‘hotspots’ of DNA evolution, emerge early in tumor evolution but fade away in later phases, particularly during the transition to metastatic states, though they leave clear marks in the genome, said Eugene Koonin, Ph.D., a co-author of the study and head of NLM’s Evolutionary Genomics Research Group.

(Researchers uncover role of repetitive DNA and protein sequences in tumor evolution, National Institutes of Health)

"A big problem associated with type 2 diabetes is that beta cells stop functioning properly and fade away," said senior author Dr. James C. Lo, assistant professor of medicine and of pharmacology at Weill Cornell Medicine and a cardiologist at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center.

(New Potential Approach Found to Type 2 Diabetes Treatment, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)