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tapering

English

  1. 🔊 gradually decreasing until little remains
  2. 🔊 becoming gradually narrower
    “long tapering fingers”
  3. 🔊 the act of gradually lowering the size or amount
    “the doctor prescribed the tapering of the dose”

Similar words

dwindling tapering off tapered narrowing acanthoid acanthous acicular acuate aculeate aculeiform acuminate acute barbed coarctation cone-shaped constriction contraction cornuted cusped cuspidate hispid horned horny mucronate