tapers

VERB

decrease to a point

Synonyms

WEAK

abate bate close come to a point die away die out diminish drain dwindle fade lessen narrow recede reduce rescind subside thin thin out wane weaken wind down

Antonyms

WEAK

go up increase rise

VERB

decrease

Synonyms

STRONGEST

abate dwindle lessen recede subside taper off

STRONG

bate close diminish drain fade narrow reduce rescind thin wane weaken

WEAK

die away die out thin out wind down

Antonyms

STRONGEST

enlarge extend grow increase rise

STRONG

expand raise strengthen

WEAK

go up

Example Sentences

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Tapers sometimes became belligerent when people talked around them, admonishing them to keep quiet.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 31, 2022

The Music Center has long carried the names of wealthy families that built it, including the Ahmansons, Tapers and Chandlers.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 15, 2022

The crowd: Representatives of the Music Center’s four founding families, the Ahmansons, the Chandlers, the Disney Millers and the Tapers, along with L.A.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 8, 2014

We swapped the stock bars out for a set of Pro Tapers and could immediately tell a difference in the comfort of the overall ride.

From Time Magazine Archive

Discovers a Room hung with Black, a Hearse standing in it with Tapers round about it, Alcippus weeping at it, with Isillia, and other Women with long black Veils round about the Hearse.

From The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume III by Summers, Montague