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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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Instead of fading away, the U.S. hosted another World Cup five years later, this time for women.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 11, 2026

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

From Salon • Jan. 13, 2026

The findings reveal that dinosaurs were not fading away at all -- they were thriving.

From Science Daily • Oct. 26, 2025

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

Once in a while the headlights of a passing car show through the window, moving first along one wall, then along the next wall, then fading away.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood

fading away

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