gutter out

Verb

Meaning

(intransitive, of a light source) To become extinguished.

(intransitive) To dwindle down to nothing.

Examples

Magnus thought of James Herondale, burning up with too much light, too much love, too much, too much- while the boy in the portrait was as lovely as a dying poet, with the fragile beauty of a candle about to gutter out. Cassandra Clare

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