TAPERING Antonyms

• streaming or flapping or spreading wide as if in a current of air

• relating to or suitable for growth

• (biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level

• (electronics) the production of (semiconductor) crystals by slow crystallization from the molten state

• becoming greater or larger

• (music) increasing in tempo and/or volume

• an abnormal protuberance or localized enlargement

• something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings

• the increase in volume of certain substances when they are heated (often accompanied by release of water)

• any material used to thicken

• any thickened enlargement

• the act of thickening

• accumulating and becoming more intense

• becoming more intricate or complex

• an increase in width

• a part of a road that has been widened to allow cars to pass or park

• the act of making something wider

• the property resulting from being or relating to the greater in number of two parts; the main part

• the property of something that is great in magnitude

• the property possessed by a large mass

• stick out or up

• cause to bulge or swell outwards

• to gain size and weight by means of exercise and diet

• make larger

• make large

• become larger or bigger

• add details, as to an account or idea; clarify the meaning of and discourse in a learned way, usually in writing

• extend in one or more directions

• become larger in size or volume or quantity

• make bigger or wider in size, volume, or quantity

• grow vigorously

• exaggerate or make bigger

• add details, as to an account or idea; clarify the meaning of and discourse in a learned way, usually in writing

• expand the influence of