fades

• French twists
• Mohawk
• Mohawks
• beehives
• big hairs
• blanches
• bleaches
• blenches
• blurs
• bobs
• braids
• breaks down
• brightens
• buns
• buzz cuts
• chignons
• clears
• coiffures
• comb-overs
• conks
• crew cuts
• crops
• cuts
• decays
• decolorizes
• degenerates
• dematerializes
• deteriorates
• dims
• disappears
• disperses
• dissipates
• dissolves
• dos
• dries up
• droops
• drops out of sight
• ducktails
• dulls
• emaciates
• etiolates
• evanesces
• evaporates
• fails
• flags
• flees
• flies
• frosts
• goes
• hair styles
• haircuts
• hairdos
• hairstyles
• lags
• languishes
• lightens
• mats
• mattes
• matts
• melts
• pageboys
• pales
• permanents
• perms
• pigtails
• plaits
• pompadours
• ponytails
• pugs
• queues
• roaches
• rots
• runs down
• sags
• shags
• shingles
• silvers
• sinks
• snows
• trims
• updos
• upsweeps
• vanishes
• washes out
• weakens
• wears out
• whitens
• whitewashes
• wilts
• withers
• yields

• appears
• arrives
• blackens
• blotches
• breaks out
• burnishes
• checkers
• colors
• comes out
• convalesces
• dapples
• darkens
• daubs
• deepens
• discolors
• dyes
• embrowns
• emerges
• flecks
• gains
• issues
• looms
• marbles
• materializes
• mottles
• paints
• patterns
• pigments
• polishes
• polychromes
• rallies
• rebounds
• recovers
• recuperates
• shades
• shines
• shows up
• speckles
• specks
• splotches
• spots
• stains
• streaks
• striates
• stripes
• tarnishes
• tinctures
• tinges
• tints
• variegates

• noun
  1. A golf shot that (for the right-handed player) curves intentionally to the right. See slice, hook, draw.
  2. 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.
  3. A fight.
  4. 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).
  5. The act of disappearing from a place so as not to be found; covert departure.
• verb
  1. To grow weak; to lose strength; to decay; to perish gradually; to wither, as a plant.
  2. To lose freshness, color, or brightness; to become faint in hue or tint; hence, to be wanting in color.
  3. To sink away; to disappear gradually; to grow dim; to vanish.
  4. To cause to fade.
  5. To bet against.

• As the sun sets, the light gradually fades from the sky.
• With time, the color of the fabric slowly fades.
• The memory of that day never truly fades from my mind.
• In autumn, the vibrant green of the leaves fades into shades of yellow and orange.
• The applause of the audience fades as the curtain falls on the final act.

pageboys

sags

darkens

fails

haircuts

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