- dwindling, tapering, tapering off - gradually decreasing until little remains
Antonym: increasing (indirect, via decreasing)
- taper off, peter out, fizzle out, fizzle - end weakly; "The music just petered out--there was no proper ending"
--1 is one way to discontinue
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- taper off - become smaller or less active; "Business tapered off"
--2 is one way to narrow, contract
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