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-v. 2. (of liquid) draw off, drain, bleed, siphon off, let run off; broach, draw, decant.

3. summon up, call forth; use, utilize; open up, draw from, exploit; dig into, reach into, probe, explore, penetrate, pierce.

4. wiretap, Sl. bug, listen in, eavesdrop, eavesdrop electronically; tape, record, get on tape.

tape, n. 1. strip, fillet, band, stripe, Naut. ribband, roll, strap, belt; ribbon, string, thread; cellophane tape, Trademark. Scotch tape, adhesive tape, masking tape; tape measure, tapeline; ticker tape.

-v. 2. wrap, bind, seal, scotch-tape, mend, fasten, taper, v. 1. narrow, thin, diminish, come to a point, contract, constrict, compress.

2. taper off diminish, decrease, Inf. peter out, ebb, wane, fade, dwindle; lessen, attenuate, slacken, let up, abate, bate; dissipate, blow away, evanesce, go up in smoke, evaporate, melt; weaken, fail, falter, slow down, slow down to a crawl; shrink, wither, wither on the vine, die away, tail, tail off; decline, droop, sag, wilt, drop, drop off, plummet, plunge, fall, fall off, slump; reduce,, curtail, cut down, retrench, abridge, lower, shorten, snip off. tapered, adj. tapering, narrowed, dwindling, pointed, flamelike, candlelike, cusped, cuspidal, cuspidate; wedge-shaped, cuneiform, cuneate, triangular, Bot., Zool. mucronate, Bot. aculeate; fusiform, spindleshaped, needlelike; conic, pyramidal, peaked, barbed, tar, n. pitch, maltha, bitumen, asphalt, gilsonite, uintaite, uintahite; resin, rosin, colophony, gum, lac. tardiness, n. lateness, slowness, dilatoriness, cunc-tation, Inf. pokiness; sluggishness, indolence, sloth, inertia, laziness, torpor; lethargy, languor; dawdling, fiddling around, Sl. screwing around, frittering away one's time; reluctance, hesitation, procrastination, putting off, temporizing, dragging one's feet; remissness, negligence, slackness, thoughtlessness; delay, deferment, postponement, prorogation, tardy, adj. 1. late, behind time, unpunctual, overdue, behind schedule, belated, behindhand, never on time, eleventh-hour, last-minute; delayed, long delayed, retarded, Inf. hung up, Inf. held up; put off, deferred, postponed.

2. slow, leisurely, slower than molasses in January, phlegmatic, listless, unmoving; snaillike, Inf. poky, lazy, lackadaisical, indolent; sluggish, slothful, slug-gardly, lethargic, languid, torpid, droopy, half-asleep.

3. reluctant, dilatory, hesitating, vacillating, procrastinating, holding back, marking time, foot-dragging.

target, n. 1. mark, bull's-eye, circle, point, quintain; objective, object, aim, goal, destination; intent, intention, purpose, idea; quarry, prey, game, pursuit.

2. butt, Inf. goat, laughingstock, stock, April fool; fool, game, victim, monkey, Brit. Sl. mug; jesting-stock, gazingstock, jest, joke.

3. buckler, shield, Archaic. targe, Class. Myth, aegis; pavis, pelta, ancile.

tariff, n. levy, toll, duty, impost, excise. See tax (def. 1.).

tarnish, v. 1. dull, discolor, oxidize, rust; dim, mat, fade, erode, corrode, blur; tinge, wash out, decolorize, achromatize, etiolate, blanch, blench.