FADING AWAY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does fading away mean? 

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

1. gradually diminishing in brightness or loudness or strength

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• FADING AWAY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Gradually diminishing in brightness or loudness or strength

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

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

dwindling; dwindling away (a becoming gradually less)

 Context examples 

She clasped his hand harder, and looked at him pityingly, as if he were the injured one, and went on:—I felt my strength fading away, and I was in a half swoon.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

I thought all this very pretty and engaging, and Steerforth seemed to think so too, as we looked after them fading away in the light of a young moon.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

At dawn and at sunset the howler monkeys screamed together and the parrakeets broke into shrill chatter, but during the hot hours of the day only the full drone of insects, like the beat of a distant surf, filled the ear, while nothing moved amid the solemn vistas of stupendous trunks, fading away into the darkness which held us in.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A team of researchers pointed the telescope at GK Persei, an object that became a sensation in the astronomical world in 1901 when it suddenly appeared as one of the brightest stars in the sky for a few days, before gradually fading away in brightness.

("Mini Supernova" Explosion Could Have Big Impact, NASA)

On the screen of his imagination he saw himself and this sweet and beautiful girl, facing each other and conversing in good English, in a room of books and paintings and tone and culture, and all illuminated by a bright light of steadfast brilliance; while ranged about and fading away to the remote edges of the screen were antithetical scenes, each scene a picture, and he the onlooker, free to look at will upon what he wished.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

I do not understand Lucy's fading away as she is doing.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)