Fade
Fade verb - To cease to be visible.
Stop
Stop verb - To bring (as an action or operation) to an immediate end.
Common collocations
| end | fade end | stop end |
| death | fade death | stop death |
| destruction | fade destruction | stop destruction |
| characters | fade characters | stop characters |
| Other words: game, enemies. | ||
Both words in one sentence
- After a few of these fade back ins one of them comments that when they want them to stop talking they'll just fade out and it will stay that way.
Source: Fade to Black - Corpses will generally only fade if you stop looking at them for a few seconds, but if you kill enough guards in the same area, you can watch them fade away.
Source: Everything Fades -
She realizes at the last moment she's dangerously close to becoming She Who Fights Monsters and manages to stop herself from finishing the job, preferring to fade away as Twilight Sparkle instead of becoming a monster, even if no one, not even her, will ever know.
Source: Set Right What Once Went Wrong
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