Usually means: Gradually diminishes in presence, intensity.
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General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. fades: Merriam-Webster
  2. fades: Collins English Dictionary
  3. fades: Vocabulary.com
  4. Fades, fades: Wordnik
  5. fades: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. fades: Wiktionary
  7. fades: Dictionary.com
  8. fades: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. The Fades (TV series), The Fades (album), The Fades: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. fades: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. fades: Legal dictionary
  2. fades: Financial dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. FADES: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  3. fades: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Fades: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See fade as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (fade)

adjective:  (archaic) Weak; insipid; tasteless.
noun:  (golf) A golf shot that curves intentionally to the player's right (if they are right-handed) or to the left (if left-handed).
noun:  A haircut where the hair is short or shaved on the sides of the head and longer on top. See also high-top fade and low fade.
noun:  (slang) A fight.
noun:  (music, cinematography) A gradual decrease in the brightness of a shot or the volume of sound or music (as a means of cutting to a new scene or starting a new song).
noun:  (slang) The act of disappearing from a place so as not to be found; covert departure.
verb:  (transitive, golf) To hit the ball with the shot called a fade.
verb:  (intransitive) To grow weak; to lose strength; to decay; to perish gradually; to wither, as a plant.
verb:  (intransitive) To lose freshness, color, or brightness; to become faint in hue or tint; hence, to be wanting in color.
verb:  (intransitive) To sink away; to disappear gradually; to grow dim; to vanish.
verb:  (transitive) To cause to fade.
verb:  (transitive, gambling) To bet against (someone).
adjective:  (archaic) Strong; bold; doughty.
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