| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| NOUN: | 1. The hindmost part of something: end, rear1, tag end, tail end. See PRECEDE. 2. Informal. An agent assigned to observe and report on another: shadow, watcher. See INVESTIGATE. 3. Something that follows or is drawn along behind: trail, train, wake2. See PRECEDE. | | VERB: | Informal. To keep (another) under surveillance by moving along behind: dog, follow, shadow, track, trail. Informal : bird-dog. See PRECEDE. | | PHRASAL VERB: | tail away To grow or cause to grow gradually less: abate, decrease, diminish, drain, dwindle, ebb, lessen, let up, peter (out), rebate, reduce, taper (off). See INCREASE.
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