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Webster 1913 Edition
fizzle
fiz′zle
(fĭz′z’l)
, Verb.
I.
[
imp. & p. p.
fizzled
(fĭz′z’ld)
; p. pr. & vb. n.
fizzling
(fĭz′zlĭng)
.] [See
Fizz
.] 1.
To make a hissing sound.
It is the easiest thing, sir, to be done,
As plain as
As plain as
fizzling
. B. Jonson.
To fizzle out
, to burn with a hissing noise and then go out, like wet gunpowder;
hence:
to fail completely and ridiculously; to prove a failure.
[Colloq.]
fiz′zle
,Noun.
A failure or abortive effort; a fiasco.
[Colloq.]
Definition 2024
fizzle
fizzle
English
Verb
fizzle (third-person singular simple present fizzles, present participle fizzling, simple past and past participle fizzled)
- To sputter or hiss.
- The soda fizzled for several minutes after it was poured.
- Ben Jonson
- It is the easest thing, sir, to be done, / As plain as fizzling.
- (figuratively) To decay or die off to nothing; to burn out; to end less successfully than previously hoped.
- The entire project fizzled after the founder retired.
- 2016 June 27, Daniel Taylor, “England humiliated as Iceland knock them out of Euro 2016”, in The Guardian, London:
- And so it fizzled to its close with Gary Cahill galloping around as an extra centre-forward, mutinous chants of “you’re not fit to wear the shirt,” from the England followers and Hodgson’s media staff announcing he would not take any questions.
Derived terms
Translations
to splutter or hiss
to decay or die off to nothing
Noun
fizzle (plural fizzles)
- A spluttering or hissing sound.
- Failure of a nuclear bomb to meet its expected yield during testing.
Translations
spluttering or hissing sound