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sizzling
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sizzle \Siz"zle\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Sizzled; p. pr. & vb. n.
Sizzling.] [See Siss.]
To make a hissing sound; to fry, or to dry and shrivel up,
with a hissing sound. [Prov. Eng. & Colloq. U. S.]
--Forby.
Sizzling \Siz"zling\, a. & n. from Sizzle.
Wiktionary
1 hot enough to make a hissing sound. 2 (context of food in a Chinese restaurant etc English) Brought to the table in the metal dish it has been cooked in, making such a sound. 3 exciting and intensely emotional. n. Such a hissing sound. v
(present participle of sizzle English)
WordNet
adj. hot enough to burn with or as if with a hissing sound; "a sizzling steak"; "a sizzling spell of weather"
characterized by intense emotion or interest or excitement; "a red-hot speech"; "sizzling political issues" [syn: red-hot]
Usage examples of "sizzling".
Aras, holding a sizzling pan in one hand, gave Ade an exasperated look and motioned him to the table.
There was an explosion and Sandy felt his flesh sizzling, his body slammed to the ground, and his soul shredded into infinitesimal pieces.
He raised a gauntleted hand, and a sizzling bolt of sickly green color streaked directly toward Brother Edmorel, striking the cleric with terrible force.
As Clyde surveyed the diverse cuts of meat sizzling on the massive grills, taken from several animal species, he found that he could not keep inappropriate memories of Byproducts out of his mind.
Seeing this, hundreds tried to follow, some dozens made it including a few of the Ehleenee officersLord Manos among themby sliding and crawling and skipping over the packed mass of burning men, over blazing saddles and sizzling horseflesh, dodging the snapping teeth of pain-maddened horses, through the unceasing rain of death.
Mistress deKyper was already in the aircar, sizzling in fury at the Melungeon sacrilege.
USSR, made a noise that reminded Molotov of lard sizzling in a hot pan.
Impaled within the array, the creature writhes in agony, its girth disappearing then reappearing within waves of sizzling emerald energy, its scalelike plumage and spines standing on end in rhythmic spasms.
As if dazzled by too many sensa, he moved through a wall of little sounds and odours: sizzling meats and conversational tidbits, woodsmoke and scorched oil and icevine burning thick and sweet.
Mom had some pans sizzling out in the kitchen, and the vizzy was full of happy Christmas people.
His eyes began to rove desperately round in their sockets as he wheezily sought to entice some air down the sizzling reaches of his seared throat.
Later, as the two boys were munching on sizzling hot beefburgers, a plant messenger delivered a can of motion-picture film to Tom.
Her heart went beserk for a moment, and after tat Tibby forgot why she was supposed to avoid the wonderfully clever mouth that sent sizzling heat vils from her toes to the top of her head.
Standing before the fire that held the big black frying-pan with her bacon and fried bread sizzling in it, she put on her vest and bloomers, her one calico-topped petticoat, her flannel one, her blue woollen dress and her white, frilled pinafore.
Only the autosurgeon continued working unperturbed, making smooth incisions and cauterising wounds with abrupt little sizzlings.