Tapered is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for TAPERED in dictionary:

VERB:
• TAPER, to become gradually narrower
• diminish or reduce in thickness towards one end
• gradually lessen
NOUN:
• a slender candle
• a wick coated with wax, used for conveying a flame.
• a gradual narrowing
• a gradual or incremental reduction
ADJECTIVE:
• Lighted with a taper or tapers; as, a tapered choir.
• becoming gradually narrower
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to become gradually narrower toward one end

Words related to TAPERED

tape6 taper7 tapering11 tapers8

How to use TAPERED in a sentence

• In youth, say up to the age of seventy or eighty years, no other tree forms so strictly tapered a cone from top to bottom.
• To expand the segments, a round tapered piece of steel, like a drift, is forced into a central hole, round which the segments are arranged.
• This whip was made of braided strands of walrus hide, and tapered from a thickness of two inches at the butt to one long single strand at the tip.
• With a wide forehead, with great width between the eyes, the face tapered to a small round chin.
• It had a high peaked portico, supported by posts 80 feet high, from which a thatched roof narrowed and tapered away to the end, where it reached the level of the ground.
• The plough here is made with a single handle, which is a beam twelve feet long, six inches in diameter below, and tapered to about two inches at the upper end.
• It tapered to a sharp ridge, from whence I beheld both the hostile valleys.
• Many delightful curves went to her making, and her waist tapered elegantly, as was the fashion of the time.
• End tapered for the purpose of passing it readily through a loop.
• Tapered end, covered with interlaced cordage for the purpose of making it stronger.
• The deception lay in the way he carried his shapely head and in the manner in which his arched neck tapered from the well-placed shoulders.
• This hole is tapered, and is accurately fitted with a movable wooden plug, the top of which is flush with the surface of the plank.
• And as he stood thus, frowning in the effort of recollection, a dull white hand, having long tapered fingers, glided across the glass until it rested directly beneath his eyes.
• From that it tapered gradually, until the ends were reached.
• To the North the dunes tapered to a long, narrow shoal over which, as far as the eye could reach, swells of clearest emerald broke into a splendor of flying spray.
• This latter type of vase had two handles and frequently its base was tapered to a point in order that it might rest in a tripod, or be thrust into the earth.
• The handle can be left the shape shown or tapered as desired.
• After pouring, remove the shaft and split the bearing with a round, tapered wooden pin.
• The pointer is of two very thin strips placed at right angles and tapered slightly at each end.
• It should be slightly tapered from the center to the ends.
• Then make a hole in the tapered end of the quill just large enough to pull through a piece of cotton string.
• A flagpost tapered from its roof but no flag blew out its folds.
• She was looking down, a white, tapered finger stirring the red petals of the rose.
• This wedge-shaped piece measured 2 feet at the outer end of the annex, and tapered down to a point at the inner end.
• The forward end of each block was also tapered off to fit flat against the face of the skate.

Similar words containing TAPER without suffix ed

taper7 tapers8 taperer9 taperers10 tapering11 taperings12 taperness11 taperwise14 taperingly16 taperstick18 tapernesses13 tapersticks19 metaperiodic19

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