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tail off

tail off verb: to gradually subside or diminish.

Verb

tail off (third-person singular simple present tails off, present participle tailing off, simple past and past participle tailed off)

  1. To gradually subside or diminish.
    • After losing to Sam Querrey in the third round of Wimbledon in 2016, Djokovic alluded to difficulties in his personal life and his form subsequently tailed off.2018 July 15, Jonathan Jurejko, “Novak Djokovic wins fourth Wimbledon by beating Kevin Anderson”, in BBC Sport

tail off meaning in Malayalam

tail off in Malayalam

wane, fade, ebb
മങ്ങുക, വാടിപ്പോകുക, അവ്യക്തമാകുക, വാടുക, നിറംമങ്ങുക, വിളറുക

Synonyms of tail off

Forms of tail off

third-person singular presenttails off
present participletailing off
past participletailed off
pasttailed off

Words formed from tail off

Questions about tail off

What does tail off mean?
Tail off means to gradually subside or diminish.
What is tail off in Malayalam?
Tail off in Malayalam is മങ്ങുക, വാടിപ്പോകുക, അവ്യക്തമാകുക. See Tail off meaning in Malayalam.
What part of speech is tail off?
Tail off is a verb.
What is the past tense of tail off?
The past tense of tail off is tailed off.

Words near tail off in the dictionary

  1. tail light
  2. tail lights
  3. tail merging
  4. tail number
  5. tail numbers
  6. tail off
  7. tail packing
  8. tail pad
  9. tail pads
  10. tail plug
  11. tail plugs

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tail off (page history and authors); tail off (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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