Definition of "petered" [petered]

• Simple past tense and past participle of peter. (verb)

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• "This one-liner vehicle driven by William Shatner and based on a Twitter feed of the same name petered out in one season; the original feed forges on with about 3 million followers."
• "Steve Forbes tried to do some of that but his candidacy for the Iowa caucuses kind of petered out real quickly so it never went anywhere."
• "About a dozen years ago, a discussion began about a subject that was important but kind of petered out without a resolution."