What started as a great effort ended up petering out to nothing.
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Peter out
/ˌpiːtəɹ‿ˈaʊt/
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Q. Do you think, Doctor, that it is possible for that south strand to likewise peter out and disappear?
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But the luck had failed, the mines petered out; and the army of miners had departed, and left this quarter of the world to the rattlesnakes and deer and grizzlies, and to the slower but steadier advance of husbandry.
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Seal the area off. Let them burn down the town, kill each other off, and it will peter out after a while.
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