peter

[pee-ter] / ˈpi tər /

VERB

decrease

Synonyms

STRONG

check contract curb decay decline degenerate drain droop drop ease ebb fade lower quiet rebate settle shrink sink slash slump taper wane waste

WEAK

abate calm down crumble curtail cut down depreciate deteriorate devaluate die down diminish drop off dry up dwindle evaporate fall off lessen let up lighten lose edge modify narrow down peter out quell reduce restrain run low shrivel slack off slacken slow down soften subside tail away tail off weaken wear away wear down wither

Antonyms

STRONG

aid ascend assist build develop enlarge expand go up grow help improve increase pour raise rise strengthen stretch

Example Sentences

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Peter Steinberger, an Austrian coder who had been offline for years after selling his last startup in 2021, created what is now OpenClaw as a weekend open-source project late last year, when he was “just playing with AI and building little things for fun,” he said in an interview.

From The Wall Street Journal

Police in the U.K. launched an investigation this week after emails appeared to show that in 2009, then business secretary Peter Mandelson forwarded a market-sensitive Downing Street memo to Epstein.

From The Wall Street Journal

Labour MP Dr Peter Prinsley highlighted the demand for care workers who are "not high earners but who are nevertheless extremely useful members of society", adding: "We need to be able to attract people to come to work in those sectors."

From BBC

The Peter Mandelson story - scandal, I think we can now say - has moved so fast over the past few days that it's hard to know where it will have gone by the time you read this, let alone the end of the week.

From BBC

Peter Grant is a commercial real-estate reporter at The Wall Street Journal based in New York.

From The Wall Street Journal

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