(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.
Wizen
Definition:
(v. i.) To wither; to dry.
(a.) Wizened; thin; weazen; withered.
(n.) The weasand.
Example Sentences:
(1) The wizened fish is hammered with a mallet to soften it so you can pull it off in strips to eat.
(2) He suggested that Mr Polly did not succeed popularly at the time because "I was a blue-eyed hero up to then and audiences hated seeing me as a little wizened chap with smarmed hair, being a henpecked husband.
(3) The infant had intrauterine growth retardation, absence of subcutaneous fat, and a wizened, aged face, all apparently characteristic of the condition, but also had congenital heart defects and urinary reflux not reported in previous cases.
(4) In some corner of that wizened and cynical mandarin remains a shining belief in the wider, common interest, served by the state and a dedicated class of permanent officials.
(5) So all these fresh, exciting plans are coming out of an administration that is actually stooped and wizened, preparing to shuffle off in its carpet slippers, yet under the crazed impression that it is in the first flush of youth.
(6) Wright points to a stunted and wizened bush nearby.
(7) He arrived in Dadaab on a donkey cart in 1992, at the age of seven, with his mother and father: a thin, wizened man with hennaed hair and light eyes called Idris.
(8) Babies in medieval paintings are depicted as wizened miniature adults.
(9) Ronnie Wood , wizen-faced survivor of rock'n'roll excess, is sipping daintily on a glass of coconut water.
(10) I use the analogy of sports, because I play a lot of different kinds of characters - well, I've already mentioned how I didn't think I could do Klute, and I once played a very wizened, tough rancher, and I didn't think I could do it.
(11) Guests included a Chechen commander (later assassinated), sports and cultural celebrities, "wizened brown peasants", a nanophysicist, "a drunken wrestler" called Vakha and a first-rank submarine captain.