to peter out

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To dwindle; to tail off; to diminish to nothing

What started as a great effort ended up petering out to nothing.

end weakly; "The music just petered out--there was no proper ending"
disappear, fade out of sight; die out, be extinguished; be used up, run out
use up all one's strength and energy and stop working; "At the end of the march, I pooped out"
to peter out

    Hyphenation

    to pe·ter out

    Turkish pronunciation

    tı pitır aut

    Pronunciation

    /tə ˈpētər ˈout/ /tə ˈpiːtɜr ˈaʊt/
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