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fading in

fading in is the present participle of fade in.

Meaning of fade in

Verb

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

  1. (intransitive, transitive) To fade from black to a visual image in a film or other visual media.
    • 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
  2. (intransitive, transitive) To commence with silence in a song and then slowly increase the volume of the music until the intro of the song is over.

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Questions about fading in

What is fading in the present participle of?
Fading in is the present participle of fade in.

Words near fading in in the dictionary

  1. fadgers
  2. fadges
  3. fadging
  4. fading
  5. fading away
  6. fading in
  7. fading out
  8. fading time
  9. fading times
  10. fading to black
  11. fadingly

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Adapted from Wiktionary: fading in (page history and authors); fade in (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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