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`noun \(cid:590)t(cid:325)-p(cid:650)r\
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`Definition of TAPER
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`a : a slender candle
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`b : a long waxed wick used especially for lighting candles,
`lamps, pipes, or fires
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`c : a feeble light
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`2
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`a : a tapering form or figure
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`b : gradual diminution of thickness, diameter, or width in an
`elongated object
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`c : a gradual decrease
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`Origin of TAPER
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`Middle English, from Old English tapor candle, wick, perhaps
`modification of Latin papyrus papyrus
`First Known Use: before 12th century
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`Other Household Terms
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`cruet, curiosity, duvet, fiasco, sham, valance, whatnot
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`Rhymes with TAPER
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`aper, caper, draper, japer, paper, raper, scraper, shaper,
`vapor
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`2taper adjective
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`Definition of TAPER
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`: progressively narrowed toward one end
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`: furnished with or adjusted to a scale : GRADUATED <taper
`freight rates>
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`First Known Use of TAPER
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`15th century
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`3taper verb
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`Taper - Definition and More from the Free Merriam-Webster Dictionary
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`: to become gradually smaller toward one end
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`ta·pered ta·per·ing
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`Full Definition of TAPER
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`intransitive verb
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`: to become progressively smaller toward one end
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`: to diminish gradually
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`1 2
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`transitive verb
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`: to cause to taper
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`Examples of TAPER
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`leaves that taper to a point
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`<you'll find the symptoms begin tapering gradually about 24
`hours after you take the medicine>
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`First Known Use of TAPER
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`1610
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`Related to TAPER
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`Synonyms
`abate, decline, de-escalate, die (away or down or out),
`diminish, drain (away), drop (off), dwindle, ease, ebb,
`fall, fall away, lessen, let up, lower, moderate, pall,
`phase down, ratchet (down) also rachet (down),
`recede, relent, remit, shrink, subside, decrease, taper
`off, wane
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`Antonyms
`accumulate, balloon, build, burgeon (also bourgeon),
`enlarge, escalate, expand, grow, increase, intensify,
`mount, mushroom, pick up, rise, snowball, soar, swell,
`wax
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`noun \(cid:590)t(cid:325)-p(cid:650)r\
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`Definition of TAPER
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`: one that applies or dispenses tape
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`Origin of TAPER
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`1tape
`First Known Use: circa 1920
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