fading out
Slowly becoming inaudible
Fading out describes a gradual decrease in intensity, volume, or visibility until something disappears entirely.
In audio and video, it's the technique of slowly reducing sound or image to silence or black: The song ends by fading out over the final thirty seconds.
More broadly, it describes anything diminishing by degrees: She was fading out of the conversation, The old traditions are slowly fading out.
- dimmingDecreasing in brightness
- disappearingCeasing to be visible
- vanishingCeasing to be visible
- slipping awayGradually leaving or diminishing
- dissolvingPassing into solution
twilight · dusk · sunset · echoing · trailing off · dying away · silence · memory · ghostly · hazy · blurring · receding · withdrawing · softening · muffled · distant · dying · waning
- dizzinessdizziness, dizzy spell, lightheadedness, vertigo, wooziness
- invisibilityinvisibility, invisible man, cloaking device, invisibility cloak, vanishing
- absent-mindednessabsent-minded, forgetfulness, distraction, daydreaming, inattentiveness
- avoidanceavoidance, distancing, evasion, dodging, pulling away
- declinedecline, in decline, decrease, downswing, on the decline
- endingsending, the end, finish, close, final
fading outbuilding up
Increasing gradually
swelling · intensifying · crescendoing · ramping up · amplifying
fading outcutting in
Entering line unfairly
hard cut · smash cut · cold open · punching in · popping up
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