Crossword-Solution: PETERED 7 letters, 20 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

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Petered imp. & p. p. of Peter

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PETERED anagram EREPTED

We have 20 clues for the answer “PETERED”

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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.
In the Days When the World Was Wide and Other Verses Henry Lawson 2008
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.
The Silverado Squatters Robert Louis Stevenson 2013
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.
Greenmantle John Buchan 1996
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.
Mr. Standfast John Buchan 1996
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.
The Trees of Pride G.K. Chesterton 1999

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.
John Irving The World According to Garp
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…
P. G. Wodehouse
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…
Carol Ann Duffy The World's Wife
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Three Across, WSJ.

Used 17 times in crossword archives (1945–2015).