v.
- gradually grow faint and disappear.
▸lose or cause to lose colour.
- lose strength or vigour.
- (with reference to film and television images) come or cause to come gradually into or out of view, or to merge into another shot.
▸(with reference to recorded sound) increase or decrease in volume or merge into another recording.
- Golf (of the ball) deviate to the right (or, for a left-handed golfer, the left), typically as a result of spin.
n.
- an act or instance of fading.
- Golf a shot causing the ball to fade.
Derivative
Etymology
ME: from OFr. fader, from fade ‘dull, insipid’, prob. based on a blend of L. fatuus ‘silly’ and vapidus ‘vapid’.