peter out
1846 US miners’ slang, from 1812 peter ("to become exhausted"). Verb
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1846 US miners’ slang, from 1812 peter ("to become exhausted"). Verb
peter out
- (idiomatic) To dwindle; to trail off; to diminish to nothing.
- What started as a great effort ended up petering out to nothing.
- German: schwinden, dahinschwinden
- Italian: esaurirsi
- Portuguese: diminuir
- Spanish: disminuirse, flojear, flaquear, debilitarse, extinguirse
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