Tapering

What do we mean by tapering?

To make thinner or narrower at one end.

To diminish gradually.

Something that makes swimmers happy :D Well, all athletes really... It's working out really hard for a few days and then doing barely anything in a short amount of time. (usually right before a big game or meet) Urban Dictionary

A term that can be used when referring to reducing the dose, when using a drug. Tapering can help an addict when trying to quit a drug. Splitting a pill, snorting less, and even injecting less. Urban Dictionary

When athletes stop working out before an athletic event and just start "knocking boots" Urban Dictionary

A device used to stretch piercings. It is small on one end and gradually increases in size until it reaches the proper gauge. Urban Dictionary

A swimmers word for masturbation. Urban Dictionary

My hairstyle, 360 waves, usually drives african american women to want to put their hands on. Urban Dictionary

A type of haircut. white folks look stupid with them. Urban Dictionary

A type of stretched ear piercing where the plug tapers to a point behind the earlobe. Urban Dictionary

To look good, clean, and sexy Tapered is a form and complaint that is used between to highly woke indaviduals Urban Dictionary

The cowardly way a guy goes about phasing out a girl by gradually responding to calls and texts less and less or by responding only with short answers. (can be done by girls too) Urban Dictionary

Words that are spelled similarly to tapering:
tapering, tampering, papering, capering, tabering, tasering, catering, tapping, towering, wavering, hampering, tempering, watering, taping, layering, pampering, tiering, vaporing, taring, havering, tarring, lasering, wagering, tapeline, taboring, tattering, supering, diapering, wafering, sabering, trapesing, apexing, gapesing, taverning, taeping, lagering, tering.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word tapering:
aboral, glabella, petiole, keeled, furrows, glabrous, peduncle, plinth, stalk, caudal, tentacles, hairs, bristles, tapered, moulded, ply, snout, taper, tip, petals, blunt, fin, apex, flattened, spikes, tips, cylindrical, rounded, dorsal, octagonal, tail, axial, inflorescence, conical, veins, aft, fins, apical, hairy, obelisk, spire, anal, shaft, rudder, longitudinal, flowers, thorax, thickness, ventral, slender, lobes, cornice, muzzle, fuselage, sharp, margins, spores, scales, posterior, glands, tails, underside, thick, whitish, rows, cockpit, inches, lateral, borne, narrower, yellowish, reddish, smooth, triangular, branched, pointed, ends, diameter, leaf, anterior, abruptly, upwards, curved, densely, stem, chimney, spine, arched, upward, abdomen, transverse, pale, blade, slightly, nose, chord, elongated, teeth, arranged, tube.

Words that rhyme with tapering:
vaporing, papering, capering, wallpapering, paper hung, wallpaper hung.

Adjectives that are often used to describe tapering:
gradual, more, rapid, slow, long, smooth, slight, less, subsequent, normal, abrupt, little, distal, progressive, ureteral, characteristic, fine, careful, wide, slower, further, proximal, round, peripheral, bronchial, gentle, proper, narrow, conical, downward, anterior, upward, mutual, sudden, base, intestinal, corticosteroid, usual, minimal, pronounced, slender, sharp, graceful, biological, uniform, tall, like, pointed, lateral, linear, successful, cautious, irregular, self, thin, excessive, symmetrical, marked, supervised, cross, dendritic, terminal, filamentous, abnormal, delicate, ischial, slim, eventual, concentric, adiabatic.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective tapering:
off, columns, wedge, point, form, column, trunk, shape, leaves, length, tip, tail, tips, joints, effect, wedges, walls, base.

Words that sound like tapering:
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