Synonyms of tapering

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

Synonyms & Similar Words

• decreasing
• subsiding
• diminishing
• easing
• declining
• falling
• shrinking
• vanishing
• ebbing
• receding
• moderating
• lowering
• waning
• dropping (off)
• tapering off
• draining (away)
• dying (away or down or out)
• lessening
• weakening
• falling away
• remitting
• ratcheting (down)
• relenting
• dwindling
• evaporating
• racheting (down)
• letting up
• abating
• palling
• phasing down
• compressing
• de-escalating
• contracting
• constricting
• collapsing
• condensing
• melting (away)
• slackening
• alleviating
• slowing (down)
• relaxing
• tailing (off)
• fading (away)
• frittering (away)
• petering (out)
• giving out
• flagging
• sinking
• deflating
• caving (in)

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• increasing
• growing
• building
• rising
• mounting
• swelling
• expanding
• intensifying
• enlarging
• escalating
• accumulating
• soaring
• burgeoning
• emerging
• picking up
• appearing
• waxing
• mushrooming
• snowballing
• ballooning
• lengthening
• showing up
• elongating
• blowing up
• distending

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of tapering

The steadiest rain is tapering, but the umbrella is definitely the more useful accessory than the sunglasses today. — Bill Kelly, CBS News, 22 Sep. 2026

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