Answer to "Fades out" crossword clue

The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word EBBS , but the solution may also be PETERS which is one of the most recent solution (2023 in New York Times).

Fades out crossword clue answers

Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.

Answer	Likelyness	Letters
EBBS	27 %	4
DIES	27 %	4
PETERS	18 %	6
DIMS	18 %	4
ENDS	9 %	4

Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Fades out

These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.

• dissipates
• disperses
• scatters
• dies
• tan
• fizzle
• evanesces
• lap dissolve
• abandon
• abandoned
• abate
• abort

Crossword Answer definitions

EBBS noun

1. The receding movement of the tide.
2. A gradual decline.
3. A low state; a state of depression.
4. A European bunting, the corn bunting (Emberiza calandra, syns. Emberiza miliaria, Milaria calandra).

EBBS verb

1. To flow back or recede
2. To fall away or decline
3. To fish with stakes and nets that serve to prevent the fish from getting back into the sea with the ebb
4. To cause to flow back.

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 EBBS

• Declines
• Falls back
• Recedes
• Eases
• Lessens
• Slackens
• Wanes
• Weakens
• Recedes, as the tide
• Doesn't flow

More clues leading to the result DIES

• Stamping devices
• Taps' partners
• __ laughing (cracks up)
• Buys the farm
• Goes the way of all flesh
• Becomes powerless
• Coin stampers
• Runs out of juice
• Loses in a videogame, often
• Conks out

More clues leading to the result PETERS

• Actor Bernadette ___
• Bunch of stiffs?
• Tony winner Bernadette
• Bernadette of Broadway
• CBC news reader Mansbridge, et al.
• Mansbridge and Lougheed
• Roberta or Bernadette
• __ out (dwindles)
• Dwindles away, with "out"
• Bernadette of "Silent Movie"

More clues leading to the result DIMS

• Turns down
• Grows faint
• Turns the lights down
• Darkens
• Lowers, lightwise
• Becomes faint
• Turns down, as lights
• Fades out
• Lowers, as lights
• Lowers, in a way

More clues leading to the result ENDS

• Comes to a conclusion
• Loose ____
• Means justification, to some
• Odds' partner
• Pulls the plug on
• Remnants
• Shakespeare title word
• Some are split
• These may be tight or split
• They can be tight or loose