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come to ought; go to nought; shrink to a nullity; fade away (Anglophile); go up in smoke (Interex); fade (bookworm); be in its wane; fizzle out (Liv Bliss); come to nothing; come to nought; come to naught; go away (Liv Bliss); peter out (to gradually become smaller, quieter, etc. and then end The campaign petered out for lack of support. The road petered out into a dirt track. The conversation became strained and eventually petered out. OALD Alexander Demidov); evaporate (scherfas); subside (driven); erode to nothing (Sidecrawler); be allowed to lapse (dreamjam); disappear; shrink to nullity; die out (Violet); die down (Lavrov); fall by the wayside (if something falls by the wayside, people stop doing it, making it, or using it Bullfinch); dwindle (A.Rezvov); go for naught (The infantry remained pinned down under intensified ground fire and an enemy dive-bombing, so that the whole effort went for naught. 4uzhoj); die on the vine (Mosley Leigh) |
