"run out of steam" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: En-au-run out of steam.ogg [Australia] Forms: runs out of steam [present, singular, third-person], running out of steam [participle, present], ran out of steam [past], run out of steam [participle, past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|run<,,ran,run> out of steam|head=run out of steam}} run out of steam (third-person singular simple present runs out of steam, present participle running out of steam, simple past ran out of steam, past participle run out of steam)
  1. (idiomatic) To run out of energy or motivation. Tags: idiomatic Related terms: run on empty Translations (to run out of energy or motivation): väsähtää (Finnish), marquer le pas (French), être à bout de souffle (French), s’essouffler (French), kifullad (Hungarian), kifogy a lendületből (Hungarian), finire la benzina (Italian), perdere energia (Italian), wypalać się [imperfective] (Polish), wypalić się [perfective] (Polish), perder fuelle (Spanish), tappa stinget (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-run_out_of_steam-en-verb-~KCZSa8x Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Polish links with redundant wikilinks

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      "sense": "to run out of energy or motivation",
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      "sense": "to run out of energy or motivation",
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      "sense": "to run out of energy or motivation",
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      "sense": "to run out of energy or motivation",
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      "sense": "to run out of energy or motivation",
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      "sense": "to run out of energy or motivation",
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      "sense": "to run out of energy or motivation",
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      "sense": "to run out of energy or motivation",
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      "sense": "to run out of energy or motivation",
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      "sense": "to run out of energy or motivation",
      "word": "perder fuelle"
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      "sense": "to run out of energy or motivation",
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