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fizzle
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
fizzle \fiz"zle\ (f[i^]z"z'l), v. i. [imp. & p. p. fizzled (f[i^]z"z'ld); p. pr. & vb. n. fizzling (f[i^]z"zl[i^]ng).] To make a hissing sound. It is the easiest thing, sir, to be done, As plain as fizzling. --B. Jonson. To make a ridiculous failure ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A spluttering or hissing sound. 2 Failure of a nuclear bomb to meet its expected yield during testing. vb. 1 To sputter or hiss. 2 (context figuratively English) To decay or die off to nothing; to burn out; to end less successfully than previously ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
verb COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADVERB out ▪ Just a few weeks ago he had been saying the whole affair would fizzle out and Banfield would sink back into anonymity once more. ▪ It was like a rocket, brilliant to start with then fizzling out to nothing. ▪ ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Fizzle may refer to: Fizzle (nuclear test) , a nuclear weapons term Luke's Fireworks Fizzle , a 1916 short comedy film Fizzle Promotions , a Music promoters Battle of Fort Fizzle , an American Civil War Fizzle Like A Flood , a moniker Doug Kabourek Fizzles ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
v. end weakly; "The music just petered out--there was no proper ending" [syn: taper off , peter out , fizzle out ]
Usage examples of fizzle.
Bilok terminated the transmission, and the hologram of Lagan wavered and fizzled out in an instant of static.
Our burnups, misfires, explosions, fizzles, and lost or wayward vehicles are well publicized.
Vermont Border--Fenians Gather in Large Numbers--The Fizzle at Pigeon Hill--Arrest of the Fenian General Spier.
The gunpowder fizzled and sparked, and a double handful of smallshot dribbled out the end of the barrel.
But as soon as the notion arose, he felt it fizzling: she was friendly, she was good-looking, but she radiated an offputting vibe, a noli-me-tangere sort of thing, that was unmistakable and made any approach from him inappropriate.
It spreads, slow and thick, meaningless codes and numbers oozing like molasses, clogging the more delicate traps, overloading the fine triggers until one by one the traps fire or fizzle, releasing payloads that are lost at once in the sea of garbage.
Flood, climbed Bay Horse, Rabbit, and Renegade Bastions without a ladder, wet the powder, made the Congreve rockets fizzle out, and carried a good deal of fish, mostly pike, into the streets and kitchens: everyone was miraculously replenished, although the granaries along Hopfengasse had long since burned down -- sunsets.
Dominic's Flood, climbed Bay Horse, Rabbit, and Renegade Bastions without a ladder, wet the powder, made the Congreve rockets fizzle out, and carried a good deal of fish, mostly pike, into the streets and kitchens: everyone was miraculously replenished, although the granaries along Hopfengasse had long since burned down -- sunsets.
Judge Bua granted the motion of the government to prevent cross-examination on that point, and Zenner's offensive fizzled.
Judge Bua granted the motion of the government to prevent cross examination on that point, and Zenner's offensive fizzled.
Judge Bua granted the motion of the government to prevent cross-examination on that point, and Zenner's offensive fizzled.
Sand rasped as he opened the sphincter and a burred fizzle of grains ran into the tent before he could immobilize it with a static compaction tool.
In another moment I was close enough to hear the fizzle of the cuffing beam, and the pop as it cut off.
And we had dinner and then after a bit we went on to the Marionette - there was a rumour it was going to be raided, but nothing happened - it was just moribund, and we drank a bit and then we went on to the Bullring and that was even deader, and then we went to a coffee stall, and then we went to a fried-fish place, and then we thought we'd go and breakfast with Angela's uncle and see if he'd be shocked, but he wasn't - only bored, and then we sort of fizzled home.
Jimmy thought back over his early childhood, before the education fizzle, and it was true that he and the other boys had been the egocentric little animals Bard described.