TAPERING Synonyms: 76 Similar and Opposite Words

tapering

verb

present participle of taper

as in decreasing

to grow less in scope or intensity especially gradually you'll find the symptoms begin tapering gradually about 24 hours after you take the medicine

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Recent Examples of tapering In acknowledgment of the Mississippi River, Noguchi’s sculpture features a tapering column topped by a balanced, crescent shape from which water flows. — News Desk, Artforum, 27 Aug. 2026 Reddington asked if that was reasonable along with immediately stopping Clancy on Zoloft and not tapering her off? — Colleen Cronin, Boston Herald, 26 Aug. 2026 The odds of prices hitting $85,000 also surged, up around 22 percentage points to 47%, with chances tapering the higher the target (30% for $90,000 and just 16% for $100,000). — Antonio Pequeño Iv, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2026 The sleeping surface measures 82 inches (208 cm) long and is widened via slim supplementary cushions to 57 inches (145 cm) at the head by the doors, tapering to 50 inches (127 cm) at the foot between the wheel wells. — New Atlas, 18 Aug. 2026 Sightings begin around June and ramp up in July before slowly tapering down through the fall. — Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 18 Aug. 2026 Medicare would clarify how clinicians can be paid for the attentive work of tapering a patient off of a medication (which is already a part of routine clinical care). — Sunny Patel, STAT, 17 July 2026 The animal had a hump over his shoulders where the gray color showed the lightest, and its nose and snout were long and tapering. — Frank C. Hibben, Outdoor Life, 15 July 2026 Chip stocks have fallen off a cliff over the past week, but traders are seeing it as more of an unwinding in the momentum play than a sign of fundamentally tapering demand within the artificial intelligence boom. — Tobias Burns, CNBC, 8 July 2026

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The vaccines don’t block all flu infections but do help prevent the worst outcomes, decreasing older adults’ hospitalizations by 31%, according to the Vaccine Integrity Project, a public health group based at the University of Minnesota.

— Lauran Neergaard, Los Angeles Times, 2 Sep. 2026
If the network of user devices is substantial enough, every job can be routed to a nearby device, decreasing the latency.

— Dina Genkina, IEEE Spectrum, 1 Sep. 2026

Definition of decreasing

Verb

Two of them coincide with areas where satellite radar shows that the ground is actively subsiding.

— Nolan Roth, Scientific American, 23 Aug. 2026
Key Background The crisis appeared to be subsiding somewhat Friday as Spanish authorities said a majority of the 60,000 people who crossed into Ceuta from Morocco over the past several days had returned home.

— Sara Dorn, Forbes.com, 31 July 2026

Definition of subsiding

Verb

Seemingly, the only thing that could slow down the automobile takeover was diminishing fuel supplies, fear of which had become a fixation of American oil companies and government officials after the Armistice.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 4 Sep. 2026
Having already weathered so many attacks aimed at diminishing its power, the remaining Iranian leadership, which learned to tolerate hardship in the Iran-Iraq War in the 1980s, is unlikely to be cowed by further aggression.

— JAMES F. JEFFREY, Foreign Affairs, 3 Sep. 2026

Definition of diminishing

Verb

The Republican party has promised a return to the good ol’ days, with strong nuclear families at the crux and a fight against the declining birth rate.

— Alyssa Goldberg, USA Today, 3 Sep. 2026
Additionally, the drug supply is always changing, with the potency of fentanyl declining in recent years.

— Theresa Gaffney, STAT, 3 Sep. 2026

Definition of declining

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Advanced robotics and a rapid rollout of AI should counter the shrinking workforce, while creating enough new jobs to keep youth disaffection at bay.

— Ben Bland, semafor.com, 1 Sep. 2026
At the same time, the world’s glaciers are shrinking because of the warming planet.

— Jackie Flynn Mogensen, Scientific American, 1 Sep. 2026