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What does trail off mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word trail off? Here's what it means.

Verb
  1. (of a voice or phenomenon) To slowly diminish in intensity, volume or frequency; thus, to diminish more quickly over time.
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Place cascading plants such as lobelia and petunias in the front to trail off the bed.
Eventually, as the flare jet velocity is reduced or the crosswind speed increases, the wake-dominated mixing regime emerges in which the flame is sucked down and stabilizes itself in the vortex trail off the stack.
He elongates the ends of all his sentences, so the words trail off annoyingly over the music.
The collection is something of a curate's egg and some of the essays, it must be said, seem to trail off into rather bizarre fields of modem learning.
The other two have a few sentences that trail off with a series of dots.
Sam joined in her soft laughter but let his slowly trail off as she did hers.

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