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fade in English:

1. gradually disappear gradually disappear



English word "fade"(gradually disappear) occurs in sets:

L9 'Do we need each other?'
reading unit 6

2. disappear disappear


More than one-third of the small high street shops have disappeared.
My money seems to disappear by the end of the month.
You disappear.
If we don't protect nature, some of our resources will disappear.
1. He said the man must disappear. / 2. Like in a second, it could all disappear.
It is easier for heaven and earth to disappear than for the least stroke of a pen to drop out of the Law.
And in the Indian Ocean, some islands of the Maldives will disappear completely beneath the water.
Two weeks after being admitted to hospital my acne suddenly started to disappear.
I want to disappear somewhere! I tend to feel like that in sultry summers.
The point we must clarify here is that the lines between amateur and professional in sport are beginning to disappear.
I want to submerge myself in the ocean depths, and to disappear there so as to never be seen again.
She watched him disappear into the crowd. These flowers are disappearing from our countryside...
Many types of plants and animals are disappearing because of pollution around the world.
When I was a kid, I thought that if I died the world would just disappear. What a childish delusion! I just couldn't accept that the world could continue to exist without me.

3. diminish


My enthusiasm has diminished greatly.
"Don't let anybody diminish your accomplishments," he said to the crowd.
The pain will gradually diminish
To say so should not diminish his importance.
poverty is not diminishing, but spreading
This conclusion is not in any way to diminish the need to protect gay people and people who support gay marriage
I don't want to diminish her achievements, but she did have a lot of help.; Her popularity as a singer has diminished since the glory days of the 1980s; The threat of inflation is diminishing.
Your pain should diminish gradually after taking these tablets.
Our company has to diminish expenses.
Anticipation did nothing to diminish the shock or the suffering
This product diminish my smile lines.
The ​threat of ​inflation is diminishing. Investors can ​diversify their ​holdings in ​order to diminish ​risk.
We need to realize that God loves us just the way we are right now, and His love for us will never diminish. Your pain should diminish gradually after taking these tablets.
The world's natural resources are rapidly diminishing. I don't wish to diminish the importance of their achievements.
With no supply of water from trees, rainfalls diminish in time and the area keeps drying up.