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fades out

fades out is the third-person singular simple present indicative of fade out.

Meaning of fade out

Verb

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

  1. (idiomatic) To slowly disappear; to wither away.
  2. (idiomatic, intransitive) To sneak away.
  3. (intransitive, transitive) To fade from a cut to black in a movie.
    • Fade in and out of a daydream / Our waking life torn at the seam / I am the match / You're the gasoline2024, Jackie Evancho, “Behind My Eyes”, in Solla
  4. (intransitive, transitive) To decrease in volume, such as at the end of a song, until there is only silence.

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Questions about fades out

What is fades out the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Fades out is the third-person singular simple present indicative of fade out.

Words near fades out in the dictionary

  1. fader
  2. faders
  3. fades
  4. fades away
  5. fades in
  6. fades out
  7. fades to black
  8. fadesome
  9. fadest
  10. fadeth
  11. fadge

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Adapted from Wiktionary: fades out (page history and authors); fade out (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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