trickle off

verb

To gradually decline in amount.

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Meanings

verbtrickle off (third-person singular simple present trickles off, present participle trickling off, simple past and past participle trickled off)

present singular third person trickles off · participle present trickling off · participle past trickled off · past trickled off

  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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