prefade

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verb

To fade (an audio track) before it is broadcast, by listening in advance.

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Meanings

verbprefade (third-person singular simple present prefades, present participle prefading, simple past and past participle prefaded)

present singular third person prefades · participle present prefading · participle past prefaded · past prefaded

  1. transitivebroadcastingTo fade (an audio track) before it is broadcast, by listening in advance.
  2. transitivebusinessTo give (clothing, etc.) a faded appearance at the time of manufacture.

    These jeans had very fussy suggestions for upkeep and seemed to prefer that I never wash them again, lest I fade their artistically prefaded denim to a more amateurish color level.

    2009 May 7, Cintra Wilson, “Is There a Setting for High Strung?”, in New York Times
nounprefade (plural prefades)

plural prefades

  1. broadcastingAn audio fade prepared before broadcast.

Origin

From pre- + fade.

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APA

prefade. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/prefade

MLA

“prefade.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/prefade. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “prefade,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/prefade.

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