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Synonyms for tapered

The synonym for tapered recorded in this bank is narrowing, in the sense "becoming gradually narrower". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.

1 synonym · Tier 4, High Camp · 1 sense · adjective

The synonym for tapered

narrowingadjective, in the sense "becoming gradually narrower"

That is the whole set. The bank holds one audited synonym per sense of a word, and tapered carries one sense so far.

The senseadjectiveTier 4, High Camp

becoming gradually narrower

Trousers with tapered legs.

One sentence, one sense. Without it the word could be read three other ways.

The true synonym

narrowing

Same sentence, swapped: Trousers with narrowing legs.

Close but different

The game offers these three alongside the answer. They are close enough to tempt and wrong enough to be wrong, which is the whole design.

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toothed
horned

Where tapered turns up in the game

tapered is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 4, High Camp. It is never used as a wrong tile elsewhere in the bank, so every board it appears on is a board it can win.

Play tapered

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This page is built from Open English WordNet 2025, with the sense, the sentence, the tier and the near misses read by a human in the July 2026 audit. Nothing on it is written while the page is built.

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