Similar words: lingering, jeering, mothering, withering, gathering, offering, wavering, simpering. Meaning: ['teɪpə(r)] 
n. the act of gradually lowering the size or amount. adj. 1. gradually narrowed toward a point 2. becoming gradually narrower 3. gradually decreasing until little remains.
n. the act of gradually lowering the size or amount. adj. 1. gradually narrowed toward a point 2. becoming gradually narrower 3. gradually decreasing until little remains. 
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1. There are signs that inflation is tapering.
2. Her foot pointed artfully toward tapering toes.
3. His interest in poetry seems to be tapering off.
4. Profits may be tapering off in the near future.
5. She had long tapering fingers.
6. Interest in the scandal seems to be tapering off.
7. They are gradually tapering off production of the older models.
8. Nonproductive expenditures keep tapering down.
9. It was a small hand, with slender, tapering fingers.
10. The schoolyard was a mud patch tapering into a ravine.
11. The girl's forehead was broad, tapering to a delicate chin.
12. The passage was narrower here, tapering off into three turnings.
13. The legs needed to come to a tapering point for easy insertion.
14. Next, a long tapering round metal pricker was inserted so that its point penetrated a short distance into the powder.
15. These branching, tapering processes of the nerve cell, as a rule, conduct impulses toward the cell body.
16. In section each mullion is an asymmetric oval, tapering at one end.
17. Once the patient has discontinued or started tapering the previously used medications, prophylactic agents are started.
18. They had graceful, slender bodies, tapering into root-like shapes where a Human would have ankles and feet.
19. He was small and elegant: tapering legs with a white band on his left knee.
20. Casualties are now tapering off.
21. The doctor prescribed the tapering of the dose.
22. Curved and tapering to a point; sickle-shaped.
23. The number of applicants for the course has been tapering off recently.
24. Ideally, they should be trimmed to form an A-shape with the sides tapering in slightly towards the top.
25. All the small buttocks somehow showed and, below that, the small muscled legs and tapering bare feet.
26. Colour a little more fondant or marzipan yellow and roll into two tapering sausages.
27. If the straw becomes blocked, the water flows down the outside, building up the calcite and forming tapering stalactites.
28. The cue maker then carefully chooses and seasons the wood, before tapering and sanding it down on a lathe.
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29. Rounded in cross-section, this gives the impression of a tapering spear penetrating the water without resistance.
30. Six feet tall, he was in his forties, had a long bony face tapering to a pointed jaw.
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