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Collocations for fade - verb

ADVERB

fast, quickly, rapidly
Hopes of a peace settlement were fading fast.
soon
gradually, slowly
quietly
It was impossible for her to fade quietly into the background.
away

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VERB + fade

begin to
seem to
All else seemed to fade into insignificance.

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PREPOSITION

from
The smile faded from his face.
into
Their voices faded into the distance.

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Fade is used with these nouns as the subject:
anger, beauty, birthmark, bloom, bruise, colour, daylight, dream, enthusiasm, euphoria, footstep, fury, grin, hope, image, light, love, memory, music, noise, pain, scar, screen, signal, smile, sound, strength, vision, voice, word

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