Crossword clues for fizzled
fizzled
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).]
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To make a hissing sound.
It is the easiest thing, sir, to be done, As plain as fizzling.
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To make a ridiculous failure in an undertaking, especially after a good start; to achieve nothing. [Colloq. or Low]
A four-day rally in stocks fizzled yesterday amid renewed fears that strong economic growth may prompt the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates.
--Sharon R. King (N. Y. Times, May 6, 1998).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.]
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: fizzle)
Usage examples of "fizzled".
A meteor storm of tiny fireballs arced toward them, but all fizzled away just short of Andris-his jordaini resistance to magic repelled such weapons.
Fireballs and lightning bolts flew like fireworks at a festival-and fizzled out just as harmlessly.
For a moment the liquid fizzled and bubbled, seething as it turned a hundred shades of crimson and purple and green.
As I watched the two the copters had killed, something fizzled under each head and smoke spiralled up.
The neurachem fizzled sullenly to unwanted life and the bioalloy plates in my hands shivered.
If they’d come upon something remotely resembling a lead, it had fizzled after the first miles of legwork.
Beer fizzled through the opening and added one more smell to the room.
Not surprisingly, his children grew up pampered, and his fortunes fizzled away.
On the wall, two image panels fizzled out, as the Tleilaxu found transmitting comeyes and disabled them.
The last wall panels fizzled and went dead as the Tleilaxu knocked out the remaining comeyes.
Around the bogey in the glow, wide veins of spice fizzled blue as the illumination activated them.
Resting against the foot of the glacier, it fizzled and steamed for almost five days in the unrelenting blizzard before there was any sign of life.