fade (something) out

Examples of fading

fading

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

And exits took on the qualities of a final musical chord fading off into inaudibility.
Even while one is enthralled with the grand passions presented on stage, one recognises that 'what one heard was simultaneously invented and fading away' (xvi).
With the fading of the political role it held in the late 1980s, rock's power as signifier has been compromised.
The 'fading of the state' in the field of welfare means that institutional solidarity is also weakening.
In addition, this layer per forms a fading-of-information operation which is per formed when cer tain temporal conditions are met.
Rather than fading, the segregationists' crime-race argument was reframed, with a slightly different veneer, and became the fulcrum of the conservative's proposed agenda on crime.
When employing a question word to request, they tend to use the 'fading terminal', all the time and for all purposes.
Even wing rubbing, fading or fraying, previously referred to as a nuisance factor, may be of intrinsic interest.
This fading out is reflected in our sample in the tendency to forget people who had once been important, their disappearance without comment.
These fading memories baffled the rare scholars who sought for some memory of that regime.
On the thorax and legs the colour becomes paler and softer and takes on a more pinkish tinge before fading completely.
The border is far from being the trace of an event long over, like a healed and fading incision scar.
However, this time, the fading out sound does not ascend or descend but rather stays at the same pitch.
It is contrasted only by the fading sound of an aeroplane.
This vector extended the left of the panorama, fading gradually into the reaches of distal space.
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