Synonyms of the word

fade

• adj. (archaic) Strong; bold; doughty.
• adj. (archaic) Weak; insipid; tasteless; commonplace.
• n. (golf) A golf shot that (for the right-handed player) curves intentionally to the right. See slice, hook,…
• n. A haircut where the hair is short or shaved on the sides of the head and longer on top. See also high-top…
• n. (slang) A fight.
• n. (cinematography) A gradual decrease in the brightness of a shot (as a means of cutting to a new scene).
• v. (intransitive) To become faded; to grow weak; to lose strength; to decay; to perish gradually; to wither,…
• v. (intransitive) To lose freshness, color, or brightness; to become faint in hue or tint; hence, to be wanting…
• v. (intransitive) To sink away; to disappear gradually; to grow dim; to vanish.
• v. (transitive) To cause to fade.
• v. (transitive, gambling) To bet against.

conclusion

• n. The end, finish, close or last part of something.
• n. The outcome or result of a process or act.
• n. A decision reached after careful thought.
• n. (logic) In an argument or syllogism, the proposition that follows as a necessary consequence of the premises.
• n. (obsolete) An experiment, or something from which a conclusion may be drawn.
• n. (law) The end or close of a pleading, e.g. the formal ending of an indictment, "against the peace", etc.
• n. (law) An estoppel or bar by which a person is held to a particular position.

degenerate

• adj. (of qualities) Having deteriorated, degraded or fallen from normal, coherent, balanced and desirable to…
• adj. (of a human or system) Having lost good or desirable qualities.
• adj. (of an encoding or function) Having multiple domain elements correspond to one element of the range.
• adj. (mathematics) A degenerate case is a limiting case in which a class of object changes its nature so as…
• adj. (physics) Having the same quantum energy level.
• n. One who is degenerate, who has fallen from previous stature.
• v. (intransitive) To lose good or desirable qualities.
• v. (transitive) To cause to lose good or desirable qualities.

deteriorate

• v. (transitive) To make worse; to make inferior in quality or value; to impair.
• v. (intransitive) To grow worse; to be impaired in quality; to degenerate.
• v. (informal) slang: to nerf (used in gaming) something which is overpowered.

devolve

• v. (obsolete, transitive) To roll (something) down; to unroll.
• v. (intransitive) To be inherited by someone else; to pass down upon the next person in a succession, especially…
• v. (transitive) To delegate (a responsibility, duty, etc.) on or upon someone.
• v. (intransitive) To fall as a duty or responsibility on or upon someone.
• v. (intransitive) To degenerate; to break down.

disappear

• v. (intransitive) To vanish.
• v. (transitive) To make vanish.
• v. (intransitive) To go away; to become lost.

disappearance

• n. The action of disappearing or vanishing.

drop

• n. A small mass of liquid just large enough to hold its own weight via surface tension, usually one that…
• n. The space or distance below a cliff or other high position into which someone or something could fall.
• n. A fall, descent; an act of dropping.
• n. A place where items or supplies may be left for others to collect, sometimes associated with criminal…
• n. An instance of dropping supplies or making a delivery, sometimes associated with delivery of supplies…
• n. (chiefly Britain) A small amount of an alcoholic beverage.
• n. (chieflt, Britain, when used with the definite article (the drop) alcoholic spirits in general.
• n. (Ireland, informal) A single measure of whisky.
• n. A small, round, sweet piece of hard candy, e.g. a lemon drop; a lozenge.
• n. (American football) A dropped pass.
• n. (American football) Short for drop-back or drop back.
• n. (Rugby football) A drop-kick.
• n. In a woman, the difference between bust circumference and hip circumference; in a man, the difference…
• n. (sports, usually with definite article "the") relegation from one division to a lower one.
• n. (video games, online gaming) Any item dropped by defeated enemies.
• n. (music) A point in a song, usually electronic-styled music such as dubstep, house, trance or trap, where…
• n. (US, banking, dated) An unsolicited credit card issue.
• n. The vertical length of a hanging curtain.
• n. That which resembles or hangs like a liquid drop: a hanging diamond ornament, an earring, a glass pendant…
• n. (architecture) A gutta.
• n. A mechanism for lowering something, such as: a trapdoor; a machine for lowering heavy weights onto a ship's…
• n. (slang) (With definite article) A gallows; a sentence of hanging.
• n. A drop press or drop hammer.
• n. (engineering) The distance of the axis of a shaft below the base of a hanger.
• n. (nautical) The depth of a square sail; generally applied to the courses only.
• v. (intransitive) To fall in droplets (of a liquid).
• v. (transitive) To drip (a liquid).
• v. (intransitive) Generally, to fall (straight down).
• v. (transitive, ergative) To let fall; to allow to fall (either by releasing hold of, or losing one's grip…
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To let drops fall; to discharge itself in drops.
• v. (intransitive) To sink quickly to the ground.
• v. (intransitive) To fall dead, or to fall in death.
• v. (intransitive) To come to an end (by not being kept up); to stop.
• v. (transitive) To mention casually or incidentally, usually in conversation.
• v. (transitive, slang) To part with or spend (money).
• v. (transitive) To cease concerning oneself over; to have nothing more to do with (a subject, discussion…
• v. (intransitive) To lessen, decrease, or diminish in value, condition, degree, etc.
• v. (transitive) To let (a letter etc.) fall into a postbox; to send (a letter or message).
• v. (transitive) To make (someone or something) fall to the ground from a blow, gunshot etc.; to bring down,…
• v. (transitive, linguistics) To fail to write, or (especially) to pronounce (a syllable, letter etc.).
• v. (cricket, of a fielder) To fail to make a catch from a batted ball that would have lead to the batsman…
• v. (transitive, slang) To swallow (a drug), particularly LSD.
• v. (transitive) To dispose (of); get rid of; to remove; to lose.
• v. (transitive) To eject; to dismiss; to cease to include, as if on a list.
• v. (Rugby football) To score [a goal] by means of a drop-kick.
• v. (transitive, slang) To impart.
• v. (transitive, music, colloquial) To release to the public.
• v. (transitive, music) To play a portion of music in the manner of a disc jockey.
• v. (intransitive, music, colloquial) To enter public distribution.
• v. (transitive, music) To tune (a guitar string, etc.) to a lower note.
• v. (transitive) To cancel or end a scheduled event, project or course.
• v. (transitive, fast food) To cook, especially by deep-frying or grilling.
• v. (intransitive, of a voice) To lower in timbre, often relating to puberty.
• v. (intransitive, of a sound or song) To lower in pitch, tempo, key, or other quality.
• v. (intransitive, of people) To visit informally; used with in or by.
• v. To give birth to.
• v. To cover with drops; to variegate; to bedrop.
• v. (slang, of the testicles) To hang lower and begin producing sperm due to puberty.

ending

• v. present participle of end.
• n. A termination or conclusion.
• n. The last part of something.
• n. (grammar) The last morpheme of a word, added to some base to make an inflected form (such as -ing in "ending").

evanesce

• v. (intransitive) To disappear into a mist or dissipate in vapor.
• v. (intransitive, chemistry) To transition from the solid state to gaseous state without ever becoming a…

fleet

• n. A group of vessels or vehicles.
• n. Any group of associated items.
• n. (nautical) A number of vessels in company, especially war vessels; also, the collective naval force of…
• n. (nautical, British Royal Navy) Any command of vessels exceeding a squadron in size, or a rear-admiral's…
• n. (obsolete) A flood; a creek or inlet, a bay or estuary, a river subject to the tide. cognate to Low German…
• n. (nautical) A location, as on a navigable river, where barges are secured.
• v. (obsolete) To float.
• v. To pass over rapidly; to skim the surface of.
• v. To hasten over; to cause to pass away lightly, or in mirth and joy.
• v. (nautical) To move up a rope, so as to haul to more advantage; especially to draw apart the blocks of…
• v. (nautical, intransitive, of people) To move or change in position.
• v. (nautical, obsolete) To shift the position of dead-eyes when the shrouds are become too long.
• v. To cause to slip down the barrel of a capstan or windlass, as a rope or chain.
• v. To take the cream from; to skim.
• adj. (literary) Swift in motion; moving with velocity; light and quick in going from place to place; nimble;…
• adj. (uncommon) Light; superficially thin; not penetrating deep, as soil.

languish

• v. (intransitive) To lose strength and become weak; to be in a state of weakness or sickness.
• v. (intransitive) To pine away in longing for something; to have low spirits, especially from lovesickness.
• v. (intransitive) To live in miserable or disheartening conditions.
• v. (intransitive) To be neglected; to make little progress, be unsuccessful.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To make weak; to weaken, devastate.
• v. (intransitive, now rare) To affect a languid air, especially disingenuously.

melt

• n. Molten material, the product of melting.
• n. The transition of matter from a solid state to a liquid state.
• n. The springtime snow runoff in mountain regions.
• n. A melt sandwich.
• n. A wax-based substance for use in an oil burner as an alternative to mixing oils and water.
• n. (Britain, slang) an idiot.
• v. (ergative) To change (or to be changed) from a solid state to a liquid state, usually by a gradual heat.
• v. (intransitive, figuratively) To dissolve, disperse, vanish.
• v. (transitive, figuratively) To soften, as by a warming or kindly influence; to relax; to render gentle…
• v. (intransitive, colloquial) To be very hot and sweat profusely.

pass

• v. (heading) Physical movement.
• v. (heading) To change in state or status, to advance.
• v. (heading) To move through time.
• v. (heading) To be accepted.
• v. (intransitive) In any game, to decline to play in one's turn.
• v. (heading) To do or be better.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To take heed.
• n. An opening, road, or track, available for passing; especially, one through or over some dangerous or otherwise…
• n. A channel connecting a river or body of water to the sea, for example at the mouth (delta) of a river.
• n. A single movement, especially of a hand, at, over, or along anything.
• n. A single passage of a tool over something, or of something over a tool.
• n. An attempt.
• n. (fencing) A thrust or push; an attempt to stab or strike an adversary.
• n. (figuratively) A thrust; a sally of wit.
• n. A sexual advance.
• n. (sports) The act of moving the ball or puck from one player to another.
• n. (rail transport) A passing of two trains in the same direction on a single track, when one is put into…
• n. Permission or license to pass, or to go and come.
• n. A document granting permission to pass or to go and come; a passport; a ticket permitting free transit…
• n. (baseball) An intentional walk.
• n. The state of things; condition; predicament; impasse.
• n. (obsolete) Estimation; character.
• n. (obsolete, Chaucer) A part, a division. Compare passus.
• n. (cooking) The area in a restaurant kitchen where the finished dishes are passed from the chefs to the…
• n. An act of declining to play one's turn in a game, often by saying the word "pass".
• n. (computing) A run through a document as part of a translation, compilation or reformatting process.
• n. (computing, slang) A password (especially one for a restricted-access website).

slice

• n. That which is thin and broad.
• n. A thin, broad piece cut off.
• n. amount.
• n. A piece of pizza.
• n. (Britain) A snack consisting of pastry with savoury filling.
• n. A broad, thin piece of plaster.
• n. A knife with a thin, broad blade for taking up or serving fish; also, a spatula for spreading anything,…
• n. A salver, platter, or tray.
• n. A plate of iron with a handle, forming a kind of chisel, or a spadelike implement, variously proportioned,…
• n. One of the wedges by which the cradle and the ship are lifted clear of the building blocks to prepare…
• n. (printing) A removable sliding bottom to a galley.
• n. (golf) A shot that (for the right-handed player) curves unintentionally to the right. See fade, hook,…
• n. (Australia, New Zealand) A class of heavy cakes or desserts made in a tray and cut out into squarish slices.
• n. (medicine) A section of image taken of an internal organ using MRI (magnetic resonance imaging), CT (computed…
• n. (falconry) A hawk's or falcon's dropping which squirts at an angle other than vertical. (See mute.).
• v. To cut into slices.
• v. To cut with an edge utilizing a drawing motion.
• v. (golf) To hit a shot that slices (travels from left to right for a right-handed player).
• v. (tennis) To hit the ball with a stroke that causes a spin, resulting in the ball swerving or staying low…
• v. (badminton) To hit the shuttlecock with the racket at an angle, causing it to move sideways and downwards.
• v. (soccer) To kick the ball so that it goes in an unintended direction, at too great an angle or too high.
• v. (rowing) To angle the blade so that it goes too deeply into the water when starting to take a stroke.
• v. (transitive) To clear (e.g. a fire, or the grate bars of a furnace) by means of a slice bar.

slicing

• n. The action of the verb to slice.
• v. present participle of slice.

swing

• v. (intransitive) To rotate about an off-centre fixed point.
• v. (intransitive) To dance.
• v. (intransitive) To ride on a swing.
• v. (intransitive) To participate in the swinging lifestyle; to participate in wife-swapping.
• v. (intransitive) To hang from the gallows.
• v. (intransitive, cricket, of a ball) to move sideways in its trajectory.
• v. (intransitive) To fluctuate or change.
• v. (transitive) To move (an object) backward and forward; to wave.
• v. (transitive) To change (a numerical result); especially to change the outcome of an election.
• v. (transitive) To make (something) work; especially to afford (something) financially.
• v. (transitive, music) To play notes that are in pairs by making the first of the pair slightly longer than…
• v. (transitive, cricket) (of a bowler) to make the ball move sideways in its trajectory.
• v. (transitive and intransitive, boxing) To move one's arm in a punching motion.
• v. (transitive) In dancing, to turn around in a small circle with one's partner, holding hands or arms.
• v. (transitive, engineering) To admit or turn something for the purpose of shaping it; said of a lathe.
• v. (transitive, carpentry) To put (a door, gate, etc.) on hinges so that it can swing or turn.
• v. (nautical) To turn round by action of wind or tide when at anchor.
• n. The manner in which something is swung.
• n. A line, cord, or other thing suspended and hanging loose, upon which anything may swing.
• n. A hanging seat in a children's playground, for acrobats in a circus, or on a porch for relaxing.
• n. A dance style.
• n. (music) The genre of music associated with this dance style.
• n. The amount of change towards or away from something.
• n. (cricket) Sideways movement of the ball as it flies through the air.
• n. The diameter that a lathe can cut.
• n. In a musical theater production, a performer who understudies several roles.
• n. A basic dance step in which a pair link hands and turn round together in a circle.
• n. Capacity of a turning lathe, as determined by the diameter of the largest object that can be turned in…
• n. (obsolete) Free course; unrestrained liberty.
• n. (boxing) A type of hook with the arm more extended.

termination

• n. The process of terminating or the state of being terminated.
• n. The process of firing an employee; ending one's employment at a business for any reason.
• n. An end in time; a conclusion.
• n. An end in space; an edge or limit.
• n. An outcome or result.
• n. The last part of a word; an ending, a desinence; a suffix.
• n. (medicine) An induced abortion.
• n. (obsolete, rare) A word, a term.
• n. The ending up of a polypeptid chain.

vanish

• v. To become invisible or to move out of view unnoticed.
• v. (mathematics) To become equal to zero.
• n. (phonetics) The brief terminal part of a vowel or vocal element, differing more or less in quality from…
• n. A magic trick in which something seems to disappear.

weaken

• v. (transitive) To make weaker.
• v. (intransitive) To become weaker.

wither

• adv. (obsolete or chiefly in compounds) Against, in opposition to.
• v. (obsolete) To go against, resist; oppose.
• v. (intransitive) To shrivel, droop or dry up, especially from lack of water.
• v. (transitive) To cause to shrivel or dry up.
• v. (intransitive, figuratively) To lose vigour or power; to languish; to pass away.
• v. (intransitive) To become helpless due to emotion.
• v. (transitive) To make helpless due to emotion.