fading away

1. 1.

   gradually diminishing in brightness or loudness or strength

   Broaderdwindling

Questions about fading away

What does fading away mean?

fading away means "gradually diminishing in brightness or loudness or strength".

Is fading away a common word?

fading away is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.