Crossword-Solution: TAPERING
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Tapering | p. pr. & vb. n. | of Taper |
| Tapering | a. | Becoming gradually smaller toward one end. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| TAPERING | anagram | RETAPING |
We have 9 clues for the answer “TAPERING”
| Clue | Answers |
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| FUSIFORM | 1 answer |
| Terete | 1 answer |
| Tailor's job | 2 answers |
| Slimming down | 2 answers |
| Tailor's activity | 2 answers |
| Coming to a point | 2 answers |
| Getting to the point? | 2 answers |
| Narrowing to a point | 2 answers |
| CONIC ___ | 6 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
EZECAM
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with TAPERING (5)
Her way back to the house was by a path through a young plantation of tapering firs, which had been planted some years earlier to shelter the premises from the north wind.
They are equipped with a massive tail about six feet long, quite round where it joins the body, but tapering to a flat, thin blade toward the end, which trails at right angles to the ground.
The ramshackle wooden hotels about the square were all hung with flags and paper lanterns, and as Harney and Charity turned into the main street, with its brick and granite business blocks crowding out the old low-storied shops, and its towering poles strung with innumerable wires that seemed to tremble and buzz in the heat, they saw the double line of flags and lanterns tapering away gaily to the park at the other end of the perspective.
You only saw your future bigly planned, And we, the tapering paths of our own mind, And in each other's dearest ways we stand, And hiss and hate.
When her mother could spare her, 'Tildy came,--a midnight beauty, with starry eyes and tapering limbs; and her brother, correspondingly homely.
Quotes with TAPERING (3)
Anachronism is not the inconsequential juxtaposition of epochs, but rather their inter-penetration, like the telescoping legs of a tripod, a series of tapering structures. Since it's quite far from one end to the other they can be opened out like an accordion; but they can also be stacked inside one another like Russian dolls, where the walls around time periods are extremely close to one another. The people of other centuries hear our phonographs blaring, and through the wal…
In one of his darker moments, the irony started him laughing and he couldn't stop, and the sounds that came from him, before finally tapering into sobs, were so far from mirth they might have been the forced inversion of laughter-like a soul pulled inside out to reveal its rawest meats.
As your training moves from base training to more intense work, to tapering, your nutrition needs to change.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, Newsday, NYT.
Used 4 times in crossword archives (2008–2021).