- 1taper off (get less and less)逐漸減少(到停止);(藥物)慢慢減量停掉
To become smaller or weaker little by little, often until it stops: rain tapers off, sales taper off, a sound tapers off. Doctors also use it for slowly stopping a medicine instead of stopping at once — you taper off a drug, or taper it off.
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taper offverb/ˈteɪpə ɒf/
- 1
To diminish or lessen gradually; to become or make smaller, slower, quieter, etc.
- Months after they printed the article, the number of angry letters finally started to taper off.
- The traffic tapers off towards mid-May, but it continues in some measure throughout the off-peak months.
- 2
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see taper, off.
- The glass tapers off at the top.
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