fade away
— phrasal verb with fade uk/feɪd/us/feɪd/verb [ I or T ]
B2 to slowly disappear, lose importance, or become weaker:
The voices became louder and closer and then faded away again.
As the years passed, the memories faded away.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Becoming and making less strong
- abate
- adulterate
- attenuate
- attrition
- blow over
- blunt
- deflate
- dial
- dim
- emasculate
- jelly
- keep sb down
- knock/take the stuffing out of sb/sth idiom
- muffle
- neutralize
- pine
- sag
- sap
- shake
- wither on the vine idiom
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