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petered out

petered out is the simple past and past participle of peter out.

Meaning of peter out

Verb

peter out (third-person singular simple present peters out, present participle petering out, simple past and past participle petered out)

  1. (intransitive) Synonym of peter (“to diminish to nothing, (originally) to refer to a vein of ore”).
    • What started as a great effort ended up petering out to nothing.

Questions about petered out

What is petered out the simple past and past participle of?
Petered out is the simple past and past participle of peter out.

Words near petered out in the dictionary

  1. Peterborow
  2. Peterburg
  3. Peterchurch
  4. Peterculter
  5. petered
  6. petered out
  7. peterel
  8. peterels
  9. peterero
  10. petereroes
  11. petereros

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Adapted from Wiktionary: petered out (page history and authors); peter out (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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