whimper.

/hwim-per, wim-/US // ˈʰwɪm pər, ˈwɪm- //UK // (ˈwɪmpə) //

呜呜咽咽,呜咽,呜咽声,呜呜呜

Definitions

verbcry softly

Forms: whimpered, whimpering

Synonyms

Experts have long predicted that the pandemic will end with a whimper, not a bang.
For instance, stars burn through their hydrogen fuel, puff up and eventually expel their gases into space, whether with a bang or a whimper.
Yet, rather than following the path laid out in its shadow docket decisions this term, Fulton ended instead with a whimper.
For much of its run, Game of Thrones was the biggest show on television, and then it went out with a whimper.
Dems in disarrayThe 2020 election ended in a whimper yesterday evening, when Democrat Rita Hart suspended her challenge to the results in Iowa's 2nd Congressional District.
Did the French monarchy end not with a bang—or a whimper—but a smile?
As ends of eras go, he recalls, it was mostly whimper and not much bang.
Democratic capitalism had won the Cold War not with a bang, but a whimper.
In Kyushu, where the yakuza are deeply rooted, they are not leaving with a whimper, they are leaving with a bang.
Without a bang or a whimper, the Grand Bargain died this week.

/hwim-per, wim-/US // ˈʰwɪm pər, ˈwɪm- //UK // (ˈwɪmpə) //

呜呜咽咽,呜咽,呜咽声,呜呜呜

verbcry softly

Forms: whimpered, whimpering

Synonyms

Experts have long predicted that the pandemic will end with a whimper, not a bang.
For instance, stars burn through their hydrogen fuel, puff up and eventually expel their gases into space, whether with a bang or a whimper.
Yet, rather than following the path laid out in its shadow docket decisions this term, Fulton ended instead with a whimper.
For much of its run, Game of Thrones was the biggest show on television, and then it went out with a whimper.
Dems in disarrayThe 2020 election ended in a whimper yesterday evening, when Democrat Rita Hart suspended her challenge to the results in Iowa's 2nd Congressional District.
Did the French monarchy end not with a bang—or a whimper—but a smile?
As ends of eras go, he recalls, it was mostly whimper and not much bang.
Democratic capitalism had won the Cold War not with a bang, but a whimper.
In Kyushu, where the yakuza are deeply rooted, they are not leaving with a whimper, they are leaving with a bang.
Without a bang or a whimper, the Grand Bargain died this week.