petered out

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Simple past tense and past participle of peter out
peter out
To dwindle; to tail off; to diminish to nothing

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

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