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trickle off

trickle off verb: to gradually decline in amount.

Verb

trickle off (third-person singular simple present trickles off, present participle trickling off, simple past and past participle trickled off)

  1. To gradually decline in amount.
    • Following a period of peak readership in the early 1980s, when BP rallied political mobilization in the face of Toronto bath-house raids, the magazine's resources began to trickle off.1986 February 15, Elizabeth Pincus, “The Passing of Canada's Body Politic”, in Gay Community News, volume 14, number 39, page 3

Forms of trickle off

third-person singular presenttrickles off
present participletrickling off
past participletrickled off
pasttrickled off

Questions about trickle off

What does trickle off mean?
Trickle off means to gradually decline in amount.
What part of speech is trickle off?
Trickle off is a verb.
What is the past tense of trickle off?
The past tense of trickle off is trickled off.

Words near trickle off in the dictionary

  1. trickle chargers
  2. trickle charges
  3. trickle charging
  4. trickle down
  5. trickle down hypothesis
  6. trickle off
  7. trickle truth
  8. trickle-down
  9. trickle-down economics
  10. trickle-down hypothesis
  11. trickle-up trend

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