Crossword-Solution: PETERED
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| Petered | imp. & p. p. | of Peter |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| PETERED | anagram | EREPTED |
We have 20 clues for the answer “PETERED”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Diminished, with "out" | 1 answer |
| ____ out: dwindled | 1 answer |
| ___ out (tapered off) | 1 answer |
| ___ out (failed) | 1 answer |
| ___ out (diminished gradually) | 1 answer |
| Fizzled, with "out" | 1 answer |
| Failed: With {/out/}. | 1 answer |
| Faded slowly, with "out" | 1 answer |
| Faded away, with "out" | 1 answer |
| Dwindled (with "out") | 1 answer |
| Ceased gradually (with "out"). | 1 answer |
| Became less, with "out" | 1 answer |
| Became exhausted, with "out" | 1 answer |
| Died out | 4 answers |
| Fizzled out | 4 answers |
| Diminished gradually | 4 answers |
| Faded (out) | 5 answers |
| Diminished by | 10 answers |
| Ran out. | 11 answers |
| Out | 94 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ERTAE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with PETERED (5)
Then the diggers held a meeting, and they shouted: 'Hip hoorar! Give three ringing cheers, my hearties, for the CAMBAROORA STAR.' But the Cambaroora petered, and the diggers' sun went down, And another sort of people came and settled in the town; The reefing was conducted by a syndicate or two, And they changed the name to 'Queensville', for their blood was very blue.
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.
But by and by it petered out, and I thought I had better clear for Europe, for South Africa was settling down just as the big show was getting really interesting.
Presently the moat petered out, and gave place to a cobbled causeway, but a wall, running at right angles with the house, blocked my way.
But they even add the agreeable detail that a new branch appears on the tree when somebody has petered out in this style.” “What new nonsense is this?” cried Vane.
Quotes with PETERED (3)
Life," Garp wrote, "is sadly not structured like a good old-fashioned novel. Instead an end occurs when those who are meant to peter out have petered out. All that is left is memory. But even a nihilist has memory.
Great pals we've always been. In fact there was a time when I had an idea I was in love with Cynthia. However, it blew over. A dashed pretty and lively and attractive girl, mind you, but full of ideals and all that. I may be wronging her, but I have an idea that she's the sort of girl who would want a fellow to carve out a career and what not. I know I've heard her speak favourably of Napoleon. So what with one thing and another the jolly old frenzy sort of petered out, and n…
At childhood’s end, the houses petered outinto playing fields, the factory, allotmentskept, like mistresses, by kneeling married men, the silent railway line, the hermit’s caravan, till you came at last to the edge of the woods. It was there that I first clapped eyes on the wolf. He stood in a clearing, reading his verse out loud in his wolfy drawl, a paperback in his hairy paw, red wine staining his bearded jaw. What big earshe had! What big eyes he had! What teeth! In the i…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Three Across, WSJ.
Used 17 times in crossword archives (1945–2015).