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Verb: taper off
  1. End weakly
    "The music just tapered off--there was no proper ending"
    - peter out, fizzle out, fizzle
     
  2. Become smaller or less active
    "Business tapered off"

Derived forms: tapered off, tapering off, tapers off

See also: taper

Type of: contract, discontinue, narrow, neck

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