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How to pronounce faded in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms bleached, washed-out, washy


faded jeans.
Type Words
Synonyms attenuate, attenuated, weakened


the faded tones of an old recording.

Examples of faded

faded
The financial crisis faded in the second quarter of 2009 as banks recapitalized.
From the bloomberg.com
Ahead, as light faded, the occupants of a stationary camper van flagged us down.
From the telegraph.co.uk
Constance is a faded Virginia belle whose pleasantries barely coat her loathing.
From the bostonherald.com
Brian Hart's faded postcards of Waterloo aren't just pretty pictures of scenery.
From the stltoday.com
As they talk about what once was, faded memories become new, living friendships.
From the ocregister.com
This man who'd held me as I came into the world faded in my arms on his way out.
From the us.cnn.com
While names such as Elliott Barker have all but faded away, Hare is influential.
From the guardian.co.uk
Instead the Wolverines faded at the end under Carr and imploded under Rodriguez.
From the dailyherald.com
Tess Schofield's costumes, however, are consistently redolent of faded elegance.
From the washingtonpost.com
More examples
  • Slice: a golf shot that curves to the right for a right-handed golfer; "he took lessons to cure his slicing"
  • Become less clearly visible or distinguishable; disappear gradually or seemingly; "The scene begins to fade"; "The tree trunks are melting into the forest at dusk"
  • Gradually ceasing to be visible
  • Lose freshness, vigor, or vitality; "Her bloom was fading"
  • Evanesce: disappear gradually; "The pain eventually passed off"
  • Languish: become feeble; "The prisoner has be languishing for years in the dungeon"
  • FADE is digital rights management software developed by Macrovision. It operates by detecting if a game has been pirated, and initially allows the player to use the game normally but eventually and gradually degrades certain game features over a time, eventually rendering it unplayable.
  • In audio engineering, a fade is a gradual increase or decrease in the level of an audio signal. The term can also be used for film cinematography or theatre lighting, in much the same way (see fade (filmmaking) and fade (lighting)).
  • "Fade" was an extremely obscure single released promotionally in the Philippines by the band Blue Angel, taken from their 1980 album also called Blue Angel. Vocals were provided by Cyndi Lauper. It did not achieve any chart success and did not even have an accompanying picture sleeve. ...