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tapered off

tapered off is the simple past and past participle of taper off.

Meaning of taper off

Verb

taper off (third-person singular simple present tapers off, present participle tapering off, simple past and past participle tapered off)

  1. (idiomatic) To diminish or lessen gradually; to become or make smaller, slower, quieter, etc.
    • Months after they printed the article, the number of angry letters finally started to taper off.
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see taper, off.
    • The glass tapers off at the top.

Questions about tapered off

What is tapered off the simple past and past participle of?
Tapered off is the simple past and past participle of taper off.

Words near tapered off in the dictionary

  1. taperbearer
  2. taperbearers
  3. taperecorder
  4. taperecorders
  5. tapered
  6. tapered off
  7. taperer
  8. taperers
  9. tapering
  10. tapering off
  11. taperingly

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tapered off (page history and authors); taper 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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