trickle off en · VERB
Meanings
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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:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |