fade

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• intransitive verb To lose brightness, loudness, or brilliance gradually.
• intransitive verb To lose freshness; wither.
• intransitive verb To lose strength or vitality; wane.
• intransitive verb To disappear gradually; vanish: synonym: disappear.
• intransitive verb Sports To swerve from a straight course, especially in the direction of a slice.
• intransitive verb Football To move back from the line of scrimmage. Used of a quarterback.
• intransitive verb To cause to lose brightness, freshness, or strength.
• intransitive verb Sports To hit (a golf ball, for instance) with a moderate, usually controlled slice.
• intransitive verb Games To meet the bet of (an opposing player) in dice.
• noun The act of fading.
• noun A gradual dimming or increase in the brightness or loudness of a light source or audio signal.
• noun A transition in a cinematic work or slide presentation in which the image gradually appears on or disappears from a blank screen.
• noun Sports A moderate, usually controlled slice, as in golf.
• noun A control mechanism on a stereo that adjusts the distribution of power between the front and rear channels.

from The Century Dictionary.

• Pale; wan; faded.
• Withered; faded, as a plant.
• Insipid; tasteless; uninteresting.
• Strong; bold; doughty.
• To become pale or wan; lose freshness, color, brightness, or distinctness; tend from a stronger or brighter color to a more faint shade of the same color, or from visibleness to invisibility; become weak in hue or tint or in outline; have the distinctive or characteristic features disappear gradually; grow dim or indistinct to the sight.
• To wither, as a plant; in general, to gradually lose strength, health, or vigor; decay; perish or disappear gradually.
• Synonyms To droop, languish.
• To cause to lose brightness or freshness of color; cause to lose distinctness to the sight.
• To cause to wither; wear away; deprive of freshness or vigor.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• intransitive verb To become fade; to grow weak; to lose strength; to decay; to perish gradually; to wither, as a plant.
• intransitive verb To lose freshness, color, or brightness; to become faint in hue or tint; hence, to be wanting in color.
• intransitive verb To sink away; to disappear gradually; to grow dim; to vanish.
• transitive verb To cause to wither; to deprive of freshness or vigor; to wear away.
• adjective rare Weak; insipid; tasteless; commonplace.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• adjective archaic Weak; insipid; tasteless; commonplace.
• noun golf A golf shot that (for the right-handed player) curves intentionally to the right. See slice, hook, draw.
• noun A haircut where the hair is short or shaved on the sides of the head and longer on top. See also high-top fade and low fade.
• verb intransitive To become fade; to grow weak; to lose strength; to decay; to perish gradually; to wither, as a plant.
• verb intransitive To lose freshness, color, or brightness; to become faint in hue or tint; hence, to be wanting in color.
• verb intransitive To sink away; to disappear gradually; to grow dim; to vanish.
• verb transitive To cause to fade.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun a golf shot that curves to the right for a right-handed golfer
• verb lose freshness, vigor, or vitality
• verb disappear gradually
• verb become less clearly visible or distinguishable; disappear gradually or seemingly
• noun gradually ceasing to be visible
• verb become feeble