flutter
verb (used without object)
to wave, flap, or toss about.
Used to describe an action that will be fully completed or achieved by a specific point in the future.
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This being the case it must go down, and, if it does, one of the last few gleams of prosperity that remain to my poor uncle will have fluttered away.
From Deep Down, a Tale of the Cornish Mines by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne