The act of gradually lowering the size or amount.

Roget 203: narrowness etc. adj.; closeness, exility^†; exiguity etc. (little) 193.    line; hair's breadth, finger's breadth; strip, streak, vein.    monolayer; epitaxial deposition [Eng.].    thinness etc. adj.; tenuity; emaciation, macilency^†, marcor^†.    shaving, slip etc. (filament) 205; thread paper, skeleton, shadow, anatomy, spindleshanks^†, lantern jaws, mere skin and bone.    middle constriction, stricture, neck, waist, isthmus, wasp, hourglass; ridge, ghaut^†, ghat^†, pass; ravine etc. 198.    narrowing, coarctation^†, angustation^†, tapering; contraction etc. 195.    ... show more

Dutch: verloop

Becoming gradually narrower:
— Long tapering fingers.

synonyms: narrowing, tapered.

Roget 253: sharp, keen; acute; acicular, aciform^†; aculeated^†, acuminated^†; pointed; tapering; conical, pyramidal; mucronate^†, mucronated^†; spindle shaped, needle shaped; spiked, spiky, ensiform^†, peaked, salient; cusped, cuspidate, cuspidated^†; cornute^†, cornuted^†, cornicultate^†; prickly; spiny, spinous^†, spicular; thorny, bristling, muricated^†, pectinated^†, studded, thistly, briary^†; craggy etc. (rough) 256; snaggy, digitated^†, two-edged, fusiform [Micro.]; dentiform^†, denticulated; toothed; odontoid^†; starlike; stellated^†, stelliform^†; sagittate^†, sagittiform^†; arrowheaded^†; arrowy^†, barbed, spurred.    acinaciform; apiculate^†, apiculated^†; aristate^†, awned, awny^†, bearded, calamiform^†, cone-shaped, coniform^†, crestate^†, echinate^†, gladiate^†; lanceolate^†, lanciform; awl, awl-shaped, lance-shaped, awl-shaped, scimitar-shaped, sword-shaped; setarious^†, spinuliferous^†, subulate^†, tetrahedral, xiphoid^†.    cutting; sharp edged, knife edged; sharp as a razor, keen as a razor; sharp as a needle, sharp as a tack; sharpened etc. v.; set ... show more

Gradually decreasing until little remains.

synonyms: dwindling, tapering off.