peters
Slowly dies down
Peters is the third-person singular of peter, a verb meaning to diminish gradually and then stop.
Something peters out when it loses momentum: The trail petered out after a mile.
Enthusiasm for the project petered out once funding dried up.
The phrase almost always appears with "out." (Capitalized Peters is a surname.)
wane
Decrease gradually
taper · fizzle · decline · subside · flag · weaken · trail off · run down · give out · wind down
- Peter PanEternal child who flies
- Peter Griffin
- peter outDiminish gradually until gone
- robs Peter to pay PaulCovers debt by creating another
- petered outGradually diminished to nothing
- petering outGradually diminishing to nothing