Definition of "fade out" []

• A type of transition used in movies usually at the end of a scene, in which the transition fades to black from the cut. (noun)
• To slowly disappear. (verb)
• To fade from a cut to black in a movie. (verb)

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• "“That little darling [4] we have left behind us at Laleham; and he will soon fade out of people's remembrance, but we shall remember him as long as we live, and he will be one more bond between us, even more perhaps in his death than in his sweet little life.”"
• "We would hear: “Today, rragedy hit … fade out … this well-known American was beloved by one and all.”"
• "They reached the Isle of Wolves, which did not seem to fade out the way the other isles did."