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tailing off

tailing off is the present participle and gerund of tail off.

Meaning of tail off

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

Questions about tailing off

What is tailing off the present participle and gerund of?
Tailing off is the present participle and gerund of tail off.

Words near tailing off in the dictionary

  1. tailhooks
  2. tailing
  3. tailing away
  4. tailing down
  5. tailing in
  6. tailing off
  7. tailings
  8. tailism
  9. tailjob
  10. tailjobs
  11. taillage

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tailing off (page history and authors); tail off (page history and authors). 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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