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verb ˈpiːtəˈpidər [no object]Decrease or fade gradually before coming to an end. 逐渐减少，逐渐减弱 the storm had petered out 暴风雨渐渐停息了。 Example sentencesExamples - A path petered out a few feet from my washing line at the back.
- The events of their communities marking the passage of each year were petering out as young people left for the capital cities.
- But when I looked up, further downstream, I could see the river narrowing, petering out.
- Gradually Barcelona had petered out in that first half, Ronaldinho in particular.
- And there the story sort of peters out, I'm afraid.
- When the door shuts, conversation peters out, expressions sour, a drunk guy in a shiny shirt leans against the wall.
- But the movie doesn't really hold together; apart from the irritating visual style, the script really peters out and most of the performances are played way too broadly.
- By the end, however, the film sort of peters out, and the script falls apart.
- We never get beyond a three-volley reply situation as conversation peters out after establishing that we're both fine and neither of us cares.
- The ending, in particular, is a definite let-down as the script simply peters out in dialogue rather than concluding on the monumental bang Tarantino's been teasing us to expect all along.
- I go for a run along a river path that quickly peters out and leaves me in an industrial zone.
- That argument went in circles for a while before petering out in non-resolution.
- Elsewhere in the city, however, the convulsions of anarchy appeared to be petering out.
- We then rewind through the previous stories, expecting everything to come together with a bang, but instead seeing each tale peter out in a whimper.
- The ending peters out inconclusively in a welter of playful/sloppy metafictional games.
- In fact you can't - the road peters out at the Beacon, a white landmark on top of a cliff, which looks like a giant coasthouse.
- The men in green will be disappointed with their performance as their smooth first half petered out in the second.
- The communal disturbance continued for a couple of weeks before petering out.
- Some films peter out purely on lack of effort in developing the main storyline.
- The game looked to be petering out to a drab draw, until Aidan McCarron, the flying Mary's full-forward, was wrestled to the ground inside the square.
Synonyms disappear, vanish into thin air, be lost to sight, be lost to view, be invisible, become invisible, evaporate, dissipate, disperse, fade, fade away, melt away, evanesce, recede from view, withdraw, depart, leave, go away fizzle out, fade, fade away, die away, die out, dwindle, diminish, taper off, tail off, trail away, trail off, wane, ebb, melt away, evaporate, disappear, come to nothing, fail, fall through, come to a halt, come to an end, run out, give out
OriginEarly 19th century: of unknown origin. RhymesAkita, Anita, arboreta, beater, beta, Bhagavadgita, cheater, cheetah, Demeter, Dieter, dolce vita, eater, eta, Evita, excreta, fetor, granita, greeter, heater, Juanita, litre (US liter), Lolita, maltreater, margarita, meter, metre, Peta, praetor (US pretor), repeater, Rita, saltpetre (US saltpeter), secretor, Senhorita, señorita, Sita, skeeter, teeter, terra incognita, theta, treater, tweeter, ureter, veleta, zeta nounˈpiːtəˈpidər informal 2Australian NZ A prison cell. 〈澳／新西兰〉单人牢房
Phrasesinformal Steal or embezzle, especially by recording false amounts on a cash register. he tickled the peter of a West End company Example sentencesExamples - I wasn't a broken-down jockey, or a book-keeper who'd done a stretch for tickling the peter, like the others.
- One or two of them have tickled the peter and skedaddled out of the country.
- He was so utterly rapt in the man that he would tickle the peter for him without compunction.
- It didn't matter what we took, half of it was ours—we just tickled the peter.
- I'm a lurker and cheater, I've tickled the peter.
OriginLate Middle English: from the given name Peter, applied in many transferred uses. Current senses date from the 19th century. verb & noun ˈpiːtə Bridge West started by cashing two top diamonds, on which East petered another term for echo
OriginLate 19th century: from Blue Peter (the invitation to one's partner to play a further lead in the suit being likened to the raising of this flag). verbˈpidərˈpēdər [no object]Decrease or fade gradually before coming to an end. 逐渐减少，逐渐减弱 the storm had petered out 暴风雨渐渐停息了。 Example sentencesExamples - That argument went in circles for a while before petering out in non-resolution.
- I go for a run along a river path that quickly peters out and leaves me in an industrial zone.
- When the door shuts, conversation peters out, expressions sour, a drunk guy in a shiny shirt leans against the wall.
- The ending, in particular, is a definite let-down as the script simply peters out in dialogue rather than concluding on the monumental bang Tarantino's been teasing us to expect all along.
- The events of their communities marking the passage of each year were petering out as young people left for the capital cities.
- Some films peter out purely on lack of effort in developing the main storyline.
- A path petered out a few feet from my washing line at the back.
- The communal disturbance continued for a couple of weeks before petering out.
- Gradually Barcelona had petered out in that first half, Ronaldinho in particular.
- In fact you can't - the road peters out at the Beacon, a white landmark on top of a cliff, which looks like a giant coasthouse.
- The ending peters out inconclusively in a welter of playful/sloppy metafictional games.
- We then rewind through the previous stories, expecting everything to come together with a bang, but instead seeing each tale peter out in a whimper.
- But when I looked up, further downstream, I could see the river narrowing, petering out.
- But the movie doesn't really hold together; apart from the irritating visual style, the script really peters out and most of the performances are played way too broadly.
- The men in green will be disappointed with their performance as their smooth first half petered out in the second.
- By the end, however, the film sort of peters out, and the script falls apart.
- The game looked to be petering out to a drab draw, until Aidan McCarron, the flying Mary's full-forward, was wrestled to the ground inside the square.
- We never get beyond a three-volley reply situation as conversation peters out after establishing that we're both fine and neither of us cares.
- And there the story sort of peters out, I'm afraid.
- Elsewhere in the city, however, the convulsions of anarchy appeared to be petering out.
Synonyms disappear, vanish into thin air, be lost to sight, be lost to view, be invisible, become invisible, evaporate, dissipate, disperse, fade, fade away, melt away, evanesce, recede from view, withdraw, depart, leave, go away fizzle out, fade, fade away, die away, die out, dwindle, diminish, taper off, tail off, trail away, trail off, wane, ebb, melt away, evaporate, disappear, come to nothing, fail, fall through, come to a halt, come to an end, run out, give out
OriginEarly 19th century: of unknown origin. OriginLate Middle English: from the given name Peter, applied in many transferred uses. Current senses date from the 19th century. noun & verbˈpidərˈpēdər Bridge West started by cashing two top diamonds, on which East petered another term for echo
OriginLate 19th century: from Blue Peter (the invitation to one's partner to play a further lead in the suit being likened to the raising of this flag). nounˈpidərˈpēdər Either of two books of the New Testament, epistles ascribed to St. Peter. Example sentencesExamples - The purpose of this blog is to share and discuss info about recent New Testament research with a particular emphasis on 1 Peter.
- The biblical scholar John Dominic Crossan dates the account of the passion within the Gospel of Peter to the middle of the first century C.E.
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