PETER OUT

• (verb) use up all one's strength and energy and stop working

  "At the end of the march, I pooped out"

  synonyms : conk out , poop out , run down , run out

• (verb) end weakly

  "The music just petered out--there was no proper ending"

  synonyms : fizzle , fizzle out , taper off

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