(a.) To become fade; to grow weak; to lose strength; to decay; to perish gradually; to wither, as a plant.
(a.) To lose freshness, color, or brightness; to become faint in hue or tint; hence, to be wanting in color.
(a.) To sink away; to disappear gradually; to grow dim; to vanish.
(v. t.) To cause to wither; to deprive of freshness or vigor; to wear away.
Example Sentences:
(1) Beckham's decision marks the culmination of a strategy aimed at preserving his brand long after the footballer has faded.
(2) Fifty-one severely retarded adults were taught a difficult visual discrimination in an assembly task by one of three training techniques: (a) adding and reducing large cue differences on the relevant-shape dimension; (b) adding and fading a redundant-color dimension; or (c) a combination of the two techniques.
(3) 133 Hatfield Street, +27 21 462 1430, nineflowers.com The Fritz Hotel Facebook Twitter Pinterest The Fritz is a charming, slightly-faded retreat in a quiet residential street – an oasis of calm yet still in the heart of the city, with the bars and restaurants of Kloof Street five minutes’ walk away.
(4) Suppression of fluorescence fading, or at least a marked reduction, is also obtained.
(5) This year's IPO frenzy has shown further signs of fading, as yet another company ditched plans to list its shares on the London stock exchange.
(6) 4-Aminopyridine increased the maximum values of both responses, and it increased the fade of the chronotropic response but not that of the inotropic response.
(7) In the individual woman, the effect seems to be cumulative and long lasting but fades with age.
(8) Illumination does not seem to impair cell function and the fluorescence does not show any sign of fading over observation times of 20 min or greater.
(9) Salmonella has come down and our problem now is campylobacter; but one form of bad news fading only to be replaced by new bad news is hardly progress.
(10) The Gunners finished four points behind Manchester United, after fading badly in the last months of the campaign.
(11) The observation was made that the expressivity of the disease was fading: while there were 15 PPK patients among the 25 investigated members in the generations II and III, there were only 2 patients among 22 members in the generations IV and V. In addition to PPK incontinentia pigmenti was diagnosed in two instances and pollex duplex in one.
(12) No matter how many times we endure attacks like this, the horror never fades.
(13) "It started out as surreal, then people joined in and it sort of faded a bit, but it seemed pretty heartfelt from Rodman's side," Simon Cockerell, a tour guide who attended the game, told Reuters.
(14) These agents are able to eliminate C. pyloridis from gastric epithelium and to fade away the gastritis.
(15) Clinical fading was observed in STS-treated vessels at 10 days postinjection.
(16) In both groups of patients, there was a low incidence of the causes of post-cordotomy pain recurrence contralateral to the lesion, i.e., deafferentation pain, fading of analgesia, and pain above the levels up to which deep pin-prick analgesia had been obtained.
(17) It was concluded that atracurium produces a profound tetanic fade, with respect to its effect on twitch or tetanic tension, suggesting that the drug is a potent neuromuscular blocker, with rapid onset of blockade.
(18) The traditional philosophy that all sexual intercourse should serve potential procreation is fading.
(19) The millisecond fading phenomenon occurred in all the fluorophores studied except Fluorescein isothiocyanate-conjugated IgG.
(20) We show that the dependence of x on the history of the environment can be calculated explicitly and has certain properties of "fading memory"; i.e., environmental events that occurred in the remote past have less effect upon the present abundance than comparable events in the recent past.
Perish
Definition:
(v. i.) To be destroyed; to pass away; to become nothing; to be lost; to die; hence, to wither; to waste away.
(v. t.) To cause perish.
Example Sentences:
(1) Not one life was lost – though of course millions of votes might well have perished in this inhospitable terrain.
(2) The groups of survived and perished animals differed (the difference was statistically significant) by the extent of coordination of the enzymatic lymphocyte systems: the correlation of enzymatic indices in the survived animals was greater than in the perished ones.
(3) Yesterday, Harry Patch died peacefully in his bed at his residential home in Wells, Somerset, a man who spent his last years urging his friends and many admirers never to forget the 9.7 million young men who perished during the 1914-18 war.
(4) The six trained together, were dispatched to Afghanistan together and, in the end, perished together when their armoured vehicle was hit by a massive Taliban bomb.
(5) The authors report about 3 cases of the congenital adreno-genital syndrome in first-born children with a high weight at birth (3900, 3600, and 4200 g) who perished in early infancy.
(6) Wet corn gluten feed is also an adequate supplement for raising dairy replacements, allowing more rapid utilization of this perishable feed resource by the dairy herd.
(7) Niger to ban women and children travelling in Sahara after 92 perish Read more The sub-Saharan migrants are determined.
(8) Final internal processing temperatures within the range of 63 to 74 degrees C did not alter the degree of botulinal inhibition in inoculated perishable canned comminuted cured pork abused at 27 degrees C. Adding hemoglobin to the formulation reduced residual nitrite after processing and decreased botulinal inhibition.
(9) In 1945 I got word that my two sons had died in the Leningrad blockade and my husband had perished fighting in Smolensk.
(10) Non-perishables – spaghetti, rice, flour, condensed milk, tomato sauce – come from the food bank.
(11) More than 30 of the 189 Americans who perished on the flight were from the state of New Jersey.
(12) The heroine of Jane Eyre is hypnotised by this cold and saintly missionary, who proposes that they marry and go to India together to convert heathens (and perish doing God's holy work).
(13) There was not only an increase in average days of survival of those that perished, but also a marked increase in the number of greater than 60-day survivors.
(14) After a crisis meeting at the Elysée on Friday morning, Hollande confirmed that all 118 people on board – 112 passengers and six Spanish crew – had perished.
(15) Your little country will forever be honoured as the site that made the Princess Diana thing look like a restrained wake for a loathed spinster who perished alone on a desert island.
(16) It became clear that there was no chance of a successful rescue and the children perished.
(17) The control group was composed of 7 practically healthy persons who had perished suddenly as a result of craniocerebral trauma.
(18) It was found that in the gills of minnow, the other mass fish in the northern rivers of the USSR, larvae of M. margaritifera cannot develop and perish.
(19) We're here to celebrate not only comrade Madiba but all the men and women who perished in the liberation war."
(20) When using in the lymphocytotoxic reaction lymphocytes stored in frozen condition the proportion of perished cells after thawing should not exceed 10-20%.