present participle of fade away

(US, euphemistic, military) A reporting term to identify an event involving a nuclear reactor or radiological accident.

(idiomatic) To slowly disappear. / To fade from a cut to black in a movie. / To decrease in volume, such as at the end of a song, until there is only silence.

A type of transition used in film, usually at the end of a scene, involving a fade to black from the cut.

Resistant to the dimming (fading) of color.

(film) To end a film or a scene of a film by causing the image to be gradually dimmed into black.

(film) An ending of this kind.

To lose strength, become weaker; to wane; to disappear or reduce slowly.

(art) A technique of painting young women, by having their clothes fade into the background.

(film) An ending of this kind.