gradate

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"The windows will gradate, one side will start all white and become gray," Irwin said.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 18, 2014

Still others use it to describe the ombré plaids popular in Western shirts in which two colors gradate from one to the other.

From New York Times • Dec. 16, 2010

Nay, I think it may even be a question whether we ought not to resolve that the line should never gradate itself at all, but terminate quite bluntly!

From On the Old Road Vol. 1 (of 2) A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature by Ruskin, John

When you can manage to tint and gradate tenderly with the pencil point, get a good large alphabet, and try to tint the letters into shape with the pencil point.

From The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing by Ruskin, John

Probably non-living substances gradate into living ones by imperceptible differenti�, as man would be found to gradate back into an anthropoid ape or something of the kind if we could see all the stages.

From Psychical Miscellanea Being Papers on Psychical Research, Telepathy, Hypnotism, Christian Science, etc. by Hill, J. Arthur