| Main Entry: | taper/taper off |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | decrease to a point |
Synonyms: |
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: |
go up, increase, rise |
| Main Entry: | taper |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | decrease |
Synonyms: |
abate, bate, close, die away, die out, diminish, drain, dwindle, fade, lessen, narrow, recede, reduce, rescind, subside, taper off, thin, thin out, wane, weaken, wind down |
Antonyms: |
go up, increase, rise |
| Main Entry: | tapering |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | conical |
Synonyms: |
conic, pointed, pyramidal, sharp, tapered |
| Main Entry: | tapering |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | narrowing |
Synonyms: |
acuminate, acuminous, conical, fusiform, lanceolar, pyramidal, taper, wedged |
Antonyms: |
widening |
| Main Entry: | abate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | lessen, grow or cause to grow less |
Synonyms: |
allay, chill out, coast*, cool, cool it, decline, decrease, diminish, dull, dwindle, ebb, go with the flow, hang easy, hang loose, lay back, let go, let it all hang out, let up, mellow out, moderate, quell, recede, reduce, slacken, slow, subdue, subside, take it easy, taper, taper off, unlax, wane |
Antonyms: |
amplify, enhance, enlarge, extend, increase, intensify, magnify, prolong, revive, rise |
| Main Entry: | conical/conic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | shaped cylindrically and with a point |
Synonyms: |
cone-shaped, coned, conoid, conoidal, funnel-shaped, pointed, pyramidal, sharp, strobilate, strobiloid, tapered, tapering |
| Main Entry: | diminish |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | become or cause to be less |
Synonyms: |
abate, abbreviate, attenuate, become smaller, close, contract, curtail, cut, decline, decrease, depreciate, die out, drain, dwindle, ebb, extenuate, fade away, lessen, lower, minify, moderate, peter out, recede, reduce, retrench, shrink, shrivel, slacken, subside, taper, temper, wane, weaken |
Antonyms: |
develop, enlarge, expand, extend, grow, increase, lengthen, prolong |
| Main Entry: | dwindle |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | waste away; taper off |
Synonyms: |
abate, bate, become smaller, close, contract, decay, decline, decrease, die away, die down, die out, diminish, drain, drop, ebb, fade, fall, grow less, lessen, peter out, pine, shrink, shrivel, sink, slack off, subside, taper, wane, weaken, wither |
Antonyms: |
develop, enlarge, expand, extend, grow, increase, save, swell |
| Main Entry: | fade |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | dwindle, die out |
Synonyms: |
abate, attenuate, clear, decline, deliquesce, deteriorate, die away, die on vine, dim, diminish, disappear, disperse, dissolve, droop, ebb, etiolate, evanesce, evanish, evaporate, fag out, fail, fall, flag, fold, hush, languish, lessen, melt, melt away, moderate, perish, peter out, poop out, quiet, rarefy, shrivel, sink, slack off, taper, thin, tire, tucker out, vanish, wane, waste away, weaken, wilt, wither |
Antonyms: |
enhance, improve, recover, strengthen |
| Main Entry: | lessen |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | lower, reduce |
Synonyms: |
abate, abridge, amputate, attenuate, become smaller, clip, close, contract, crop, curtail, cut, cut back, de-escalate, decline, decrease, degrade, die down, dilute, diminish, downsize, drain, dwindle, ease, erode, grow less, impair, lighten, minify, minimize, mitigate, moderate, narrow, roll back, shrink, slack up, slacken, slow down, soft-pedal, take the bite out, take the edge off, take the sting out, taper, taper off, thin, truncate, weaken, wind down |
| Notes: | lessen means to decrease in size, extent, or range, while a lesson is a unit of instruction |
Antonyms: |
enlarge, extend, increase, raise, strengthen |