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synonyms for fade away

  • deteriorate
  • disappear
  • end
  • expire
  • fail
  • fall
  • pass
  • stop
  • vanish
  • abate
  • bate
  • crumble
  • decay
  • decline
  • degenerate
  • dilapidate
  • diminish
  • droop
  • ebb
  • fade
  • halt
  • lapse
  • moderate
  • molder
  • rankle
  • recede
  • retrograde
  • rot
  • sink
  • slacken
  • subside
  • wane
  • weaken
  • wilt
  • break down
  • ease off
  • fade out
  • fizzle out
  • go bad
  • go downhill
  • let up
  • lose power
  • melt away
  • peter out
  • run down
  • run low
  • run out
  • wear away
On this page you'll find 451 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to fade away, such as: deteriorate, disappear, end, expire, fail, and fall.

antonyms for fade away

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  • advance
  • appear
  • arrive
  • bear
  • begin
  • commence
  • reach
  • start
  • win
  • build
  • continue
  • develop
  • enhance
  • enlarge
  • extend
  • flourish
  • forge
  • forward
  • grow
  • improve
  • increase
  • prolong
  • rise
  • strengthen
  • be born
  • live
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How to use fade away in a sentence

On this light being covered again the figure would apparently fade away.
DOPESAX ROHMER
These spots, which are from some hundred to some thousand miles in diameter, may endure for months before they fade away.
OUTLINES OF THE EARTH'S HISTORYNATHANIEL SOUTHGATE SHALER
Their palaces were houses not made with hands; their diadems, crowns of glory which should never fade away.
ENGLISH: COMPOSITION AND LITERATUREW. F. (WILLIAM FRANKLIN) WEBSTER
Not many years after, he wrote from England, "I saw the last blue line of my native land fade away like a cloud in the horizon."
ST. NICHOLAS, VOL. 5, NO. 5, MARCH, 1878VARIOUS
People when they were perplexed would look towards it, and presently their doubts would fade away.
THE STORY OF THE BIG FRONT DOORMARY FINLEY LEONARD
She let her colour go—the forced smile fade away—the eyes grow dull with heavy pain.
NORTH AND SOUTHELIZABETH CLEGHORN GASKELL
Then when he saw the tense expression of fear fade away he smiled more broadly—he provoked reply in kind.
THE LANDLOPERHOLMAN DAY
There could be nothing for him now till the insipidity of life should gradually fade away into the grave.
THE PRIME MINISTERANTHONY TROLLOPE
Are we not Spirits, that are shaped into a body, into an Appearance; and that fade away again into air and Invisibility?
SARTOR RESARTUSTHOMAS CARLYLE
The edges no longer fade away, but stand out sharp from the paper.
HISTORY OF THE POSTAGE STAMPS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICAJOHN KERR TIFFANY
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