Fading
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -eɪdɪŋ
Verb
fading- 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
fading
(plural fadings)- 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 ...
- (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