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tapers off

tapers off is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 tapers off

What is tapers off the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Tapers off is the third-person singular simple present indicative of taper off.

Words near tapers off in the dictionary

  1. taperlike
  2. taperly
  3. tapermaker
  4. taperness
  5. tapers
  6. tapers off
  7. taperstick
  8. tapersticks
  9. tapertail
  10. tapertails
  11. taperwise

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tapers 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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