Usually means: To decrease gradually before stopping.
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We found 40 dictionaries that define the word peter:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. Peter, peter: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. Peter, Peter, Peter, Peter, Peter, peter, peter, peter: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. Peter, peter, peter: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. peter: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Peter, peter: Vocabulary.com
  6. peter: Wordnik
  7. peter: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Peter, peter: Wiktionary
  9. peter: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. Peter, peter: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. peter: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Peter: Dictionary.com
  13. Peter, peter (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. peter: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Peter (Bishop of Pavia), Peter (Fringe episode), Peter (Loukianoff), Peter (actor), Peter (apostle), Peter (chief mouser), Peter (curopalates), Peter (diplomat), Peter (disambiguation), Peter (dog), Peter (eagle), Peter (film), Peter (first name), Peter (given name), Peter (judge royal), Peter (name), Peter (novel), Peter (sevastokrator), Peter (short story), Peter (stratopedarches), Peter (surname), Peter (usurper), Peter: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Peter: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. peter: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. Peter: Rhymezone
  19. Peter, pter: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. peter: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Peter: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  22. Peter: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  23. peter: Free Dictionary
  24. peter: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. Peter, peter: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  26. Peter: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. peter-: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Peter (disambiguation), Peter: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. baby names list (No longer online)
  2. Encyclopedia of the Orient (No longer online)
  3. PETER: Acronym Finder
  4. peter: Idioms

Religion (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Peter: Easton Bible
  2. Peter: Smith's Bible Dictionary
  3. Irivng Hexham's Concise Dictionary of Religion (No longer online)

Slang (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. peter, peter, peter, peter, peter, peter, peter, peter, peter: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. American-Australian Slang Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Peter: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade
  4. Peter [Lynn] [Stafford], peter, Peter: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See petered as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Peter)

noun:  (World War II era, joint US/RAF) radiotelephony clear-code word for the letter P.
noun:  A male given name from Ancient Greek.
noun:  The leading Apostle in the New Testament.
noun:  (biblical) The epistles of Peter in the New Testament of the Bible, 1 Peter and 2 Peter attributed to St. Peter.
noun:  A surname originating as a patronymic.
noun:  A census-designated place in Cache County, Utah, United States, named after Peter Maughan.
noun:  (slang) The penis.
noun:  (UK, slang) A safe.
noun:  (UK, prison slang) A prison cell.
verb:  (intransitive, originally US) Chiefly followed by out: originally (mining), of a vein of ore: to be depleted of ore; now (generally), to diminish to nothing; to dwindle, to trail off.
verb:  (card games, intransitive) Synonym of blue peter; to call for trump by throwing away a high card while holding a lower one.

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