1. fade away - Noun
2. fade away - Verb
become weaker
Source: WordNetfade-away
It is better to burn out than fade away. Kurt Cobain
Old soldiers never die, they just fade away. Douglas MacArthur
Widows tend either to fade away when husbands die, committing emotional suttee, or else find that a new life burgeons. Here in Christchurch, a lot of burgeoning goes on. Fay Weldon
A poet must be a psychologist, but a secret one: he should know and feel the roots of phenomena but present only the phenomena themselves in full bloom or as they fade away. Ivan Turgenev
I didn't know that painters and writers retired. They're like soldiers – they just fade away. Lawrence Ferlinghetti
I listened to them fade away till all I could hear was my memory of the sound. Ken Kesey