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View definitions for tapering

tapering

adjective as in conical

Weak match

adjective as in narrowing

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Before becoming pregnant, she spent six months tapering her meds, and told her family that if she had a relapse, she was willing to start taking the medication again.

From Salon

Weather officials expect the heavy rains to start tapering off by 1 September as the deep depression in the Arabian Sea shifts towards Pakistan.

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Had the builder constructed the wall so the base was two or three rocks wide tapering to only one rock wide near the top, I’m sure I’d not be writing this column.

Participants in Nevada County must show up twice a week to provide a urine sample, tapering to once a week for the second half of treatment.

Although forecasters expected storms to begin tapering off in southeastern Texas, high waters continued to close some roads and left residents facing lengthy cleanups in neighborhoods where rising river levels led to weekend evacuation orders.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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