Meanings
verbvade (third-person singular simple present vades, present participle vading, simple past and past participle vaded)
present singular third person vades · participle present vading · participle past vaded · past vaded
- obsoleteTo fade; to vanish.
Summer leaves all vaded.
1595 December 9 (first known performance), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Richard the Second”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]1 more example
They into dust shall vade.
1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 11
Origin
Alteration of fade.
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Rhymes with vade
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APA
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“vade.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/vade. Accessed November 2, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “vade,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/vade.
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