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verb

Definition of fade (away)next
as in to melt (away)

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noun

as in evaporation

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Recent Examples of fade (away)
Noun
The Knicks then turned the Spurs over, with Brunson hitting a fadeaway jumper to go up six. — John Cassillo, Forbes.com, 4 June 2026 Officials assessed McCollum a technical foul for inadvertently kicking Brunson below the belt while flailing his leg on a fadeaway jump shot in the Knicks’ Game 1 victory over the Atlanta Hawks on Saturday. — Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 19 Apr. 2026 Brown followed with a midrange fadeaway over Kon Knueppel and a full-speed buzzer-beating floater in traffic to cap a 10-0 run and put Boston up 90-87 entering the fourth. — Zack Cox, Boston Herald, 8 Apr. 2026 Instead, the Lakers superstar pulled up straight over the top of Bryant’s outstretched arm, dropping a fadeaway jumper softly through the net. — Los Angeles Times, 1 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for fade (away)
Recent Examples of Synonyms for fade (away)
  1. vanish
  2. evaporation
  3. evaporate
  4. passing
  5. fall away
  6. melting
  7. give out
  8. fading
Verb
  • In Sarah Pekkanen’s new thriller, The Women in White, a young health-care aide probes how four female participants in a 1964 parapsychology experiment suddenly vanished.
    — The Week US, TheWeek, 20 Aug. 2026
  • In August 2025, the remains of a British researcher who vanished in 1959 in Antarctica were discovered amid rocks near a receding glacier on King George Island, located off the Antarctic Peninsula.
    — CBS News, CBS News, 19 Aug. 2026
Definition of vanish
Noun
  • Cherry Creek State Park CBS During especially hot stretches, Seubert said the reservoir can lose roughly two inches of water per week to evaporation.
    — Tori Mason, CBS News, 20 Aug. 2026
  • The average person loses up to 32 ounces of water while sleeping through skin evaporation and sweat.
    — Maggie Ryan, Flow Space, 20 Aug. 2026
Definition of evaporation
Verb
  • The Treasury Department intervened midweek to help, but, by Friday, the relief had evaporated.
    — CBS News, CBS News, 23 Aug. 2026
  • And then there’s that Omius headband, which uses graphite blocks to pull heat away from the skin as water evaporates.
    — Nadia Neophytou, Chicago Tribune, 23 Aug. 2026
Definition of evaporate
Noun
  • His arm talent and ability to protect the football could give FIU a more efficient passing attack.
    — Alejandro Hernandez, Miami Herald, 17 Aug. 2026
  • The three spacecraft will beam lasers at each other, looking for deviations in the travel time of those laser beams as evidence for the passing of a long-wavelength gravitational wave.
    — Keith Cooper, Space.com, 17 Aug. 2026
Definition of passing
Verb
  • While players would often flourish on first arriving in McCullum’s dressing room, Root is the only one whose average has not fallen away.
    — Ben Jones, New York Times, 21 Aug. 2026
  • And once data is sent outside the system covered by HIPAA, the HIPAA limits fall away.
    — Jennifer D. Oliva, The Conversation, 17 Aug. 2026
Definition of fall away
Noun
  • PyroGenesis will supply a coarse Ti64 titanium powder for electron beam melting, or EBM.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 20 Aug. 2026
  • Late last month, a hiker discovered human remains that turned up following the melting of the Trift glacier south of the city of Lucerne, prompting a recovery operation, the regional government said Wednesday.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 20 Aug. 2026
Definition of melting
Verb
  • After also taking six wickets on a wild opening day, Shoriful Islam soon picked up his seventh with a searing inswinging yorker which struck Green on the front foot and was given out leg before wicket on review.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 22 Aug. 2026
  • The Treasury Department has already given out $100 billion in refunds since May, crossing the halfway point of total revenue collected through IEEPA tariffs.
    — Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 21 Aug. 2026
Definition of give out
Noun
  • This locks the fabric color to help reduce bleeding and fading.
    — Bianca Lambert, Southern Living, 1 Aug. 2026
  • The deep indigo color has no fading, which gives the jeans a sleeker look, and the leg is relaxed throughout but doesn’t look slouchy.
    — Shea Simmons, PEOPLE, 31 July 2026
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“Fade (away).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fade%20%28away%29. Accessed 25 Aug. 2026.

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