Hypertext Webster Gateway: "faded"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Fade \Fade\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Faded}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Fading}.] [OE. faden, vaden, prob. fr. fade, a.; cf. Prov.
D. vadden to fade, wither, vaddigh languid, torpid. Cf.
{Fade}, a., {Vade}.]
1. To become fade; to grow weak; to lose strength; to decay;
to perish gradually; to wither, as a plant.
The earth mourneth and fadeth away. --Is. xxiv. 4.
2. To lose freshness, color, or brightness; to become faint
in hue or tint; hence, to be wanting in color. ``Flowers
that never fade.'' --Milton.
3. To sink away; to disappear gradually; to grow dim; to
vanish.
The stars shall fade away. --Addison
He makes a swanlike end, Fading in music. --Shak.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Faded \Fad"ed\, a.
That has lost freshness, color, or brightness; grown dim.
``His faded cheek.'' --Milton.
Where the faded moon Made a dim silver twilight.
--Keats.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
faded
adj 1: having lost freshness or brilliance of color; "sun-bleached
deck chairs"; "faded jeans"; "a very pale washed-out
blue"; "washy colors" [syn: {bleached}, {washed-out},
{washy}]
2: reduced in strength; "the faded tones of an old recording"
[syn: {attenuate}, {attenuated}, {weakened}]
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