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tapering off

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Adj.1.tapering off - gradually decreasing until little remains
decreasing - becoming less or smaller

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Here, there shot up, almost perpendicularly, into the sky, a height so steep, as to be hardly accessible to any but the sheep and goats that fed upon its sides, and there, stood a mound of green, sloping and tapering off so delicately, and merging so gently into the level ground, that you could scarce define its limits.
 
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