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taperingverbpresent participle of taper to grow less in scope or intensity especially graduallyyou'll find the symptoms begin tapering gradually about 24 hours after you take the medicine abating, declining, decreasing, de-escalating, diminishing, draining (away), dropping (off), dwindling, dying (away or down or out), easing, ebbing, falling, falling away, lessening, letting up, lowering, moderating, palling, phasing down, ratcheting (down)also racheting (down), receding, relenting, remitting, shrinking, subsiding, tapering off, waning compressing, condensing, constricting, contractingevaporating, fading (away), frittering (away), giving out, melting (away), petering (out), tailing (off), vanishingslackening, slowing (down)alleviating, relaxingflagging, sinking, weakeningcaving (in), collapsing, deflating accumulating, ballooning, building, burgeoning(also bourgeoning), enlarging, escalating, expanding, growing, increasing, intensifying, mounting, mushrooming, picking up, rising, snowballing, soaring, swelling, waxing appearing, emerging, showing upblowing up, distending, elongating, lengthening |