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fading away

ADJECTIVE

lessening

Synonyms

STRONG

abating declining depreciating diminishing dropping dwindling ebbing lightening lowering moderating narrowing plummeting plunging quieting sagging shrinking sinking slackening slowing slumping softening subsiding waning wasting weakening

WEAK

dying down losing momentum shriveling up wearing down wearing off

NOUN

ebb

Synonyms

STRONG

abatement backflow decay decrease degeneration depreciation deterioration diminution drop dwindling flagging lessening recession reflux retreat shrinkage sinking slackening subsidence sweep wane waning weakening withdrawal

WEAK

going out low tide low water outward flow petering out refluence retrocession retroflux

Antonyms

STRONG

advance development enlargement expansion growth improvement increase

WEAK

flow incline rise

Example Sentences

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Mehta, who needs two healthcare assistants 24 hours a day, says every unnecessary day on the ward feels like precious time "fading away".

From BBC • May 19, 2026

There’s nothing else quite like it, and it’s fading away.

From Salon • Jan. 13, 2026

Quantum memories help solve this problem by making quantum repeaters possible, allowing information to hop across a network through entanglement swapping rather than fading away.

From Science Daily • Jan. 6, 2026

In Chuck years, the film starts when he’s 39 and in his final hours of fading away from brain cancer, rewinds to nine months earlier and then leaps back to his boyhood.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 5, 2025

I do not understand Lucy’s fading away as she is doing.

From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker

fading away

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