prefadeEtymologyFrom pre- + fade.nounAn audio fade prepared before broadcast.verbTo fade (an audio track) before it is broadcast, by listening in advance.To 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.”