The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 3 letter word EBB which also is the latest solution we found used in New York Times in 2023.
Fade away crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| EBB | 29 % | 3 |
| EVANESCE | 29 % | 8 |
| DIE | 15 % | 3 |
| WANE | 11 % | 4 |
| ABATE | 5 % | 5 |
| DIEOUT | 3 % | 6 |
| PETEROUT | 3 % | 8 |
| MELT | 3 % | 4 |
| PERISH | 2 % | 6 |
| WEAROFF | 2 % | 7 |
Why may EBB be the right solution?
The word "ebb" means to gradually diminish or fade away, often used to describe the receding of water. Therefore, "ebb" is the right solution for the clue "Fade away."
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Fade away
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- dissolve
- fade out
- fade
- die away
- fall away
- melt away
- wane
- slip away
- weaken
- diminish
- drop away
- faint
Crossword Answer definitions
EBB noun- The receding movement of the tide.
- A gradual decline.
- A low state; a state of depression.
- A European bunting, the corn bunting (Emberiza calandra, syns. Emberiza miliaria, Milaria calandra).
- To flow back or recede
- To fall away or decline
- To fish with stakes and nets that serve to prevent the fish from getting back into the sea with the ebb
- To cause to flow back.
- Low, shallow
More crossword clues leading to the same solutions
Here's a few more crossword clues - all leading to the identical solution
More clues leading to the result EBB
More clues leading to the result EVANESCE
- Slowly disappear
- Dissipate like vapor
- Disappear like vapor
- Fade away
- Vaporize
- Dissipate gradually
- Vanish
- Fade from sight
- Disappear gradually.
- Disappear, like vapor.
More clues leading to the result DIE
- Gambling cube
- Tool and ____ set
- Trivial Pursuit need
- __-hard
- "The ___ is cast." (Caesar)
- Conk out
- It's one you roll
- Cube with dots?
- Gaming cube
- Monopoly cube
More clues leading to the result WANE
- Wax counterpart
- Decrease
- Ease off
- Slack off
- Wax's counterpart
- Decline
- Alternative to wax
- Begin to fade
- Diminish
- Draw to a close
More clues leading to the result ABATE
More clues leading to the result DIEOUT
- Become extinct
- Go the way of the dodo
- Cool off, as a fad
- Fade away
- Fade to nothing
- Prove unsustainable
- Disappear.
- Emulate the dodo
- Fade
- Go extinct
More clues leading to the result PETEROUT
- Die away slowly
- Become exhausted
- Fizzle
- Fade away.
- Become exhausted.
- Diminish gradually.
- Diminish gradually
- Part 2 of the quip
- Fade gradually
- Dwindle
More clues leading to the result MELT
- Soften up
- Cheesy sandwich
- Fuse
- Sandwich with cheese
- Get soft
- Lose shape
- Thaw
- What water caused the Wicked Witch of the West to do
- Fuse or thaw
- Feel charmed and then some
More clues leading to the result PERISH
- Meet one's demise
- "Publish or ___"
- "___ the thought!"
- Alternative to publish
- Be totally destroyed
- Suffer ruin
- Bite the dust
- Cease to be
- ____ the thought!
- "... shall not ___ from ...": Lincoln