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 The bed is flared out inside the van, tapering to a 39-in (100-cm) width to fit inside the Happy Dreamer pod, so campers will be most comfortable sleeping with their feet in the pod, heads in the van. — New Atlas, 16 Sep. 2026 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 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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Little brown bats can similarly reduce their metabolic demands by going Dracula for months at a time, decreasing their body temperatures by more than fifty degrees Fahrenheit and slowing their respiration to a handful of breaths an hour.

— Rivka Galchen, New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2026
The steadiest and most widespread coverage of any rain should be early in the day with the coverage decreasing during the afternoon and evening.

— Rachael Jay, CBS News, 11 Sep. 2026

Definition of decreasing

Verb

Multiple Kelvin waves These waves can bring elevated sea levels for weeks at a time, eventually subsiding before the next wave hits.

— Zoe Mintz, CBS News, 6 Sep. 2026
Two of them coincide with areas where satellite radar shows that the ground is actively subsiding.

— Nolan Roth, Scientific American, 23 Aug. 2026

Definition of subsiding

Verb

Meanwhile, the housing market is getting crushed by high mortgage rates and diminishing affordability, while consumers are carrying ever more expensive credit card and auto debt.

— John W. Diamond, The Conversation, 16 Sep. 2026
The risk of eroding trust and diminishing stakeholder confidence by staying silent is too high.

— Kristi Piehl, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2026

Definition of diminishing

Verb

Both trends followed Warsh's comments a few weeks ago that the Fed would be forced into action unless there are more concrete signs that inflation is easing back to the central bank's 2% target.

— Jeff Cox, CNBC, 14 Sep. 2026
In a time of strained Spanish-American relations, Kuss is doing his part in easing diplomatic tensions.

— Chris Marshall-Bell, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2026

Definition of easing

Verb

For some business owners, the impact extends beyond declining sales.

— Ivan Taylor, CBS News, 17 Sep. 2026
The number of people aged 100 or older in Japan surpassed a record 100,000 this year, the latest government figures show, underscoring the country's rapidly aging and declining population.

— ABC News, ABC News, 16 Sep. 2026