fizzle
11fizzle — [16] Originally, fizzle meant ‘fart silently or unobtrusively’: ‘And then in court they poisoned one another with their fizzles’, Benjamin Walsh’s translation of Aristophanes’ Knights 1837. Then in the mid 19th century it started to be used for a …
12fizzle — [[t]fɪ̱z(ə)l[/t]] fizzles, fizzling, fizzled VERB If something fizzles, it ends in a weak or disappointing way after starting off strongly. [V into/to n] Our relationship fizzled into nothing. [Also V] Syn: peter out PHRASAL VERB Fizzle out means …
13fizzle — [16] Originally, fizzle meant ‘fart silently or unobtrusively’: ‘And then in court they poisoned one another with their fizzles’, Benjamin Walsh’s translation of Aristophanes’ Knights 1837. Then in the mid 19th century it started to be used for a …
14fizzle — Synonyms and related words: abort, assibilate, assibilation, bafflement, balk, be disappointing, betrayed hope, blasted expectation, blighted hope, blow, blow up, blubber, boil, boil over, boiling, bomb, bubble, bubble over, bubble up, bubbliness …
15fizzle — fiz|zle [ˈfızəl] v fizzle out phr v [Date: 1500 1600; Origin: Probably from fist to fart (15 17 centuries)] to gradually stop happening, especially because people become less interested ▪ Their romance just fizzled out …
16fizzle — verb 1》 make a feeble hissing sound. 2》 (fizzle out) end or fail in a weak or disappointing way. noun a feeble hissing sound. Origin ME (in the sense break wind quietly ): prob. imitative (cf. fizz), but perh. related to ME fist (see feisty) …
17fizzle — I. v. n. 1. Hiss, make a hissing noise, fizz. 2. (Colloq.) Fail, make a failure of it, fizzle out. II. n. (Colloq.) Failure, fiasco, abortive attempt …
18fizzle — verb fizzle out phrasal verb (I) informal to gradually stop happening, especially because people become less interested in something: Their romance just fizzled out …
19fizzle — v 1. hiss, sibilate, sputter, fizz, swish, sizzle, rustle, buzz, whiz; effervesce, bubble, sparkle, aerate, foam, froth, spume. 2.Informal. Often fizzle out fail, miscarry, abort, founder; misfire, collapse, cave in, come to nothing, fall short,… …
20fizzle — /ˈfɪzəl / (say fizuhl) verb (i) (fizzled, fizzling) 1. to make a hissing or sputtering sound, especially one that dies out weakly. –noun 2. a fizzling, hissing, or sputtering. 3. Colloquial a fiasco; a failure. –phrase 4. fizzle out, Colloquial… …
