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faded to black

faded to black is the simple past and past participle of fade to black.

Meaning of fade to black

Verb

fade to black (third-person singular simple present fades to black, present participle fading to black, simple past and past participle faded to black)

  1. (intransitive) To end a film or a scene of a film by causing the image to be gradually dimmed into black.
    • They danced the famous Merengue / Now we dolly back / Now we fade to black1976, Walter Becker, Donald Fagen, “Haitian Divorce”, in The Royal Scam, performed by Steely Dan

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Questions about faded to black

What is faded to black the simple past and past participle of?
Faded to black is the simple past and past participle of fade to black.

Words near faded to black in the dictionary

  1. faded away
  2. Faded Giant
  3. Faded Giants
  4. faded in
  5. faded out
  6. faded to black
  7. fadedly
  8. fadedness
  9. Fadel
  10. fadeless
  11. fadelessly

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Adapted from Wiktionary: faded to black (page history and authors); fade to black (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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