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whimper

verb as in cry softly

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Until recently, it looked as if Sasaki’s first season with the Dodgers was going to end with a whimper.

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Out of a men's Euros last year with a whimper, not even at this year's women's event, and a club game with a co-efficient dropping through the floor.

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DeChambeau was a shadow of the player who stormed to victory at Pinehurst last June as his title defence faded with a whimper.

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However, a hollow feeling was left after both finals, given how much of a whimper the Scots went out with on each occasion.

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However, not everyone was blown away, with the Hollywood Reporter saying it's "a disappointing farewell", and Mashable saying the series risked going out with the "fizzled whimper of a message self-destructing in a tape deck".

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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