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Verb peter out has 2 senses
- taper off, peter out, fizzle out, fizzle - end weakly; "The music just petered out--there was no proper ending"
--1 is one way to discontinue
Sample sentence:
Something ----s
- poop out, peter out, run down, run out, conk out - use up all one's strength and energy and stop working; "At the end of the march, I pooped out"
--2 is one way to tire, pall, weary, fatigue, jade
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s
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