Fading

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -eɪdɪŋ

Verb

1. Present participle of fade.
   fading light;  fading memory;  fading reputation
• 2013-10-19, Banyan, The meaning of Sachin, With fading eyesight and reactions, the runs have dried up. That Mr Tendulkar has nonetheless kept his place in the national cricket side is a more dismal exemplum: of the impunity enjoyed by all India’s rich and powerful.

Full definition of fading

Noun

1. The act of something that fades; gradual diminishment.
• 1854, Herman Melville, Israel Potter...the rude earth of the wall had no painted lustre to shed off all fadings and tarnish ...
2. (obsolete) An Irish dance; also, the burden of a song.
• Beaumont and FletcherFading is a fine jig.
• William Shakespeare (1564-1616)delicate burthens of dildos and fadings