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TAPER OFF
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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Become smaller or less active
Example:
Business tapered off
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "taper off" is one way to...):
contract; narrow (make or become more narrow or restricted)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s
Sense 2
Meaning:
End weakly
Example:
The music just petered out--there was no proper ending
Synonyms:
fizzle; fizzle out; peter out; taper off
Classified under:
Verbs of being, having, spatial relations
Hypernyms (to "taper off" is one way to...):
discontinue (come to or be at an end)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s
