FADING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does fading mean? 

• FADING (noun)
  The noun FADING has 1 sense:

1. weakening in force or intensity

  Familiarity information: FADING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FADING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Weakening in force or intensity

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Synonyms:

attenuation; fading

Context example:

attenuation in the volume of the sound

Hypernyms ("fading" is a kind of...):

weakening (becoming weaker)

Derivation:

fade (become feeble)

fade (lose freshness, vigor, or vitality)

 Context examples 

At the same instant the huge portcullis came rattling down from above, and shut off the last fading light of day.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

All the life that was in him was fading, fainting, making toward death.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

The trees had been stripped by a recent wind of their white covering of frost, and they seemed to lean towards each other, black and ominous, in the fading light.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

The stars were fading, the sky was whitening, and the cold wind of morning blew pleasantly upon my face.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The river was shallow at that point, and two feet beneath the surface he could see the bottom dull-yellow in the fading light.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

When Swift mission turned to the galaxy shortly after Fermi’s gamma-ray burst detection, it found a bright and quickly fading ultraviolet (UV) source.

(NASA Missions Catch First Light from a Gravitational-Wave Event, NASA)

Traits with uncertain explanations include their gradual growth, their seasonal reappearance, their rapid fading when inactive, and the presence of hydrated salts, which have water molecules bound into their crystal stucture.

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

The stunning new images of the star’s surface show not only the fading red supergiant but also how its apparent shape is changing.

(ESO Telescope Sees Surface of Dim Betelgeuse, ESO)

As he spoke we came round the curve of the avenue, and saw in the fading light that every blind in the house had been drawn down.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

And the poor souls, I can pity them now and weep, as I think of them placid each in her full sleep of death for a short moment ere fading.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)