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UK
/tˈeɪpəɹɪŋ/
]
[ US /ˈteɪpɝɪŋ/ ]
[ US /ˈteɪpɝɪŋ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
- gradually decreasing until little remains
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becoming gradually narrower
long tapering fingers
trousers with tapered legs
NOUN
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the act of gradually lowering the size or amount
the doctor prescribed the tapering of the dose
How To Use tapering In A Sentence
- The cue maker then carefully chooses and seasons the wood, before tapering and sanding it down on a lathe.
- The house, with its steeply pitched red-tiled roof, precipitous gables and tall tapering chimneys, is L-shaped with a well-head in the angle, its conical top resembling a Welsh wizard's hat.
- With its wildly outsized fender flares, saucer-eyed round headlamps, squat fuselage, tapering roofline and curiously latent, not-quite-formed rear contours, the Juke looks like a Nissan Murano at the larval stage. Nissan's Jazzy Juke, Imperfect on Purpose
- Black; the head and thorax very closely punctured, thinly clothed with griseous pubescence, that on the face, thorax beneath, and on the coxæ most dense and glittering; antennæ more slender than is usual in this genus, and tapering to their apex, the joints slightly subarcuate; the mandibles bidentate at their apex and with a yellow spot at their base. Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
- The center of the pole was thickest, the other two points tapering slightly before ending at a sharp point.
- Cut the dough in two and roll it into sausage shapes, tapering at each end.
- Black; the head and thorax very closely punctured, thinly clothed with griseous pubescence, that on the face, thorax beneath, and on the coxæ most dense and glittering; antennæ more slender than is usual in this genus, and tapering to their apex, the joints slightly subarcuate; the mandibles bidentate at their apex and with a yellow spot at their base. Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
- Black; the head and thorax very closely punctured, thinly clothed with griseous pubescence, that on the face, thorax beneath, and on the coxæ most dense and glittering; antennæ more slender than is usual in this genus, and tapering to their apex, the joints slightly subarcuate; the mandibles bidentate at their apex and with a yellow spot at their base. Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
- Doctors recommend gradually tapering doses before quitting. Times, Sunday Times
- His interest in poetry seems to be tapering off.
