fading

verb

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of fade.

   “fading light; fading memory; fading reputation”

   “With fading eyesight and reactions, the runs have dried up. That Mr Tendulkar has nonetheless kept his place in the national [cricket] side is a more dismal exemplum: of the impunity enjoyed by all India’s rich and powerful.”

noun

1. The process by which something fades; gradual diminishment.

   “[…] the rude earth of the wall had no painted lustre to shed off all fadings and tarnish […]”

2. (obsolete)An Irish dance.

   “Fading is a fine jig.”

3. (obsolete)The burden of a song.

   “He has the prettiest love songs for maids, so without bawdry, which is strange with such delicate burdens of dildos and fadings”