Fade

1. a. Weak; insipid; tasteless; commonplace.
2. a. To become fade; to grow weak; to lose strength; to decay; to perish gradually; to wither, as a plant.
3. a. To lose freshness, color, or brightness; to become faint in hue or tint; hence, to be wanting in color.
4. a. To sink away; to disappear gradually; to grow dim; to vanish.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.