'V into n' - Construction 8

Name: the fade into construction
Description: An entity becomes less noticeable.
Verbs: blend, fade, melt, merge, recede, vanish, fade away
Example: I always noticed how … the dark bands on the wings faded into each other… (BNC)
Membership: figurative; change state
Semantic fields and roles: Field: Equivalence. Roles: NP1: Carrier; NP2: Attribute
Field: Change. Roles: NP1: Affected; NP2: Outcome
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