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vade

/veɪd/

vade verb: to fade; to vanish.

Verb

vade (third-person singular simple present vades, present participle vading, simple past and past participle vaded)

  1. (obsolete) To fade; to vanish.
    • Summer leaves all vaded.1595 December 9 (first known performance), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Richard the Second”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to...
    • They into dust shall vade.1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 11

Forms of vade

third-person singular presentvades
present participlevading
past participlevaded
pastvaded

Origin of vade

Alteration of fade.

Phrases with vade

Words that rhyme with vade

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Questions about vade

What does vade mean?
Vade means to fade; to vanish.
What part of speech is vade?
Vade is a verb.
How do you pronounce vade?
Vade is pronounced /veɪd/.
What is the past tense of vade?
The past tense of vade is vaded.

Words near vade in the dictionary

  1. Vadakku Ammapattinam
  2. Vadala
  3. Vadalas
  4. vadas
  5. vadding
  6. vade
  7. vade mecum
  8. vade mecums
  9. vade-mecum
  10. vade-mecums
  11. vaded

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