Usually means: Gradually diminish and then end.
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  1. peter out: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. peter out: Merriam-Webster
  3. peter out: Vocabulary.com
  4. peter out: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  5. peter out: Wiktionary
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  7. peter out: Rhymezone
  8. peter out: FreeDictionary.org
  9. peter out: Mnemonic Dictionary
  10. peter out: TheFreeDictionary.com
  11. Peter out: World Wide Words
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  1. peter out: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. peter out: Urban Dictionary

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▸ verb:  (intransitive, originally US) Synonym of peter (“to diminish to nothing, (originally) to refer to a vein of ore”)

Similar:
fizzle out, run down, taper off, conk out, run out, fizzle, poop out, Peter, wring, gutter out, more...

Opposite:
intensify, escalate, build up, strengthen, amplify

Adjectives:
outen, level, ebb, down, shot out, fallen, facedown, utter, broken, out, attack

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Similar:
fizzle out, run down, taper off, conk out, run out, fizzle, poop out, Peter, wring, gutter out, more...

Opposite:
intensify, escalate, build up, strengthen, amplify

Adjectives:
outen, level, ebb, down, shot out, fallen, facedown, utter, broken, out, attack



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