peter out

phrasal verb

petered out; petering out; peters out

informal

: to gradually become smaller, weaker, or less before stopping or ending

Their romantic relationship petered out after the summer.

Interest in the sport is beginning to peter out.

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However, that rally could peter out in the new year, with analysts as a group believing the stock could fall more than 43% in 2025. —

Sean Conlon, CNBC, 23 Dec. 2024 As those loans came to an end and zoos returned their pandas, there was worry that panda diplomacy would peter out. —

Amy Hubbard, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2024 Nonetheless, there has been a vague sense that this rise is beginning to peter out of late, largely because when a solar cell made from perovskite gets larger than 1 square centimeter the best conversion efficiency had been around 15.6 percent. —

IEEE Spectrum, 6 July 2016 Yet the opening quarter ends in Minneapolis with zero points after drives have started with some promising chunk plays, only to peter out. —

Andrew Greif, NBC News, 4 Nov. 2024 See all Example Sentences for peter out