Word.ws English Dictionary

prefade

prefade verb: to fade (an audio track) before it is broadcast, by listening in advance.

Verb

prefade (third-person singular simple present prefades, present participle prefading, simple past and past participle prefaded)

  1. (transitive) To fade (an audio track) before it is broadcast, by listening in advance.
  2. (transitive) To give (clothing, etc.) a faded appearance at the time of manufacture.
    • These jeans had very fussy suggestions for upkeep and seemed to prefer that I never wash them again, lest I fade their artistically prefaded denim to a more amateurish color level.2009 May 7, Cintra Wilson, “Is There a Setting for High Strung?”, in New York Times

Noun

prefade (plural prefades)

  1. An audio fade prepared before broadcast.

Forms of prefade

Verb
third-person singular presentprefades
present participleprefading
past participleprefaded
pastprefaded
Noun
pluralprefades

Origin of prefade

From pre- + fade.

Questions about prefade

What does prefade mean?
Prefade means to fade (an audio track) before it is broadcast, by listening in advance.
What part of speech is prefade?
Prefade can be a verb or a noun.
What is the past tense of prefade?
The past tense of prefade is prefaded.

Words near prefade in the dictionary

  1. prefacists
  2. prefactor
  3. prefactors
  4. prefactory
  5. prefactual
  6. prefade
  7. prefaded
  8. prefader
  9. prefades
  10. prefading
  11. prefagomine

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: prefade (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “prefade.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/prefade. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.