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taperverb to grow less in scope or intensity especially graduallyyou'll find the symptoms begin tapering gradually about 24 hours after you take the medicine abate, de-escalate, decline, decrease, die (away or down or out), diminish, drain (away), drop (off), dwindle, ease, ebb, fall, fall away, lessen, let up, lower, moderate, pall, phase down, ratchet (down)also rachet (down), recede, relent, remit, shrink, subside, taper off, wane compress, condense, constrict, contractevaporate, fade (away), fritter (away), give out, melt (away), peter (out), tail (off), vanishslacken, slow (down)alleviate, relaxflag, sink, weakencave (in), collapse, deflate accumulate, balloon, build, burgeon(also bourgeon), enlarge, escalate, expand, grow, increase, intensify, mount, mushroom, pick up, rise, snowball, soar, swell, wax appear, emerge, show upblow up, distend, elongate, lengthen before the 12th century |