TAPER OFF

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

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)

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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:

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