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’.