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trickle off en · VERB

Meanings

  1. To gradually decline in amount.
    • Following a period of peak readership in the early 1980s, when BP rallied political mobilization in the face of Toronto bath-house raids, the magazine's resources began to trickle off. 1986 February 15, Elizabeth Pincus, “The Passing of Canada's Body Politic”, in Gay Community News, volume 14, number 39, page 3:

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trickling off Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
trickles off Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
trickled off Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
trickled off Tense=Past lexicographic