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fade-out

fade-out is the alternative form of fadeout.

Meaning of fadeout

Noun

fadeout (plural fadeouts)

  1. A gradual disappearance or fading away.
    • The scene ends with a fadeout to unconsciousness.2009 February 17, Howard W. French, “Surviving a Hitch in an Army of Boys”, in New York Times

Forms of fade-out

pluralfade-outs

Origin of fade-out

Deverbal from fade out.

Questions about fade-out

What is fade-out the alternative form of?
Fade-out is the alternative form of fadeout.

Words near fade-out in the dictionary

  1. fade to white
  2. fade-away
  3. fade-aways
  4. fade-in
  5. fade-ins
  6. fade-out
  7. fade-outs
  8. fadeable
  9. fadeaway
  10. fadeaways
  11. FADEC

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