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fizzle out

vb. To lose excitement, to become less exciting.

WordNet
fizzle out

v. end weakly; "The music just petered out--there was no proper ending" [syn: taper off, peter out, fizzle]

Usage examples of "fizzle out".

I thought about going back to Nebuchadnezzar, looking for a target, but the War Mother and I agreed, I'd just fizzle out and give the planet another useless scar.

I mean, its been such a long time since we held a meeting, and societies just fizzle out if theyre not kept going somehow.

That way we can stall making a report for a week or so, and let the matter fizzle out.

All of them, without exception, would fizzle out in the waters of San Francisco Bay.