Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context intransitive of a light source English) To become extinguished. 2 (context intransitive English) To dwindle down to nothing, to reach a value of zero.
Usage examples of "gutter out".
You can take the Jew out of the gutter, but you can't take the gutter out of the Jew.
The wind off the Chesapeake gains strength, whips the candle flames until they gutter out, sings through the strings of the harpsichord in the dark-now an accidental tune, now a thin scream from long ago.
The force of Roarke's attack sent Alban flying back, sent candles flying to gutter out in pools of blood.
Thanks to those misbegotten scum of ushers at Oxford, who cast me into the gutter out of spite, who robbed me of dignity and the fruits of scholarship .
Seen more closely,it appeared as a dull smoky globe, a candle about to gutter out, the smokeconsisting of myriads of particles dancing in the solar magnetism.
Poor lost soul - the wizard linked his life to that of the demon he bore, and when it failed, he began to gutter out, like a candle in air unable to sustain a flame.