'fizzle' definitions:
Definition of 'fizzle'
(from WordNet)
noun
A fricative sound (especially as an expression of disapproval); "the performers could not be heard over the hissing of the audience" [syn: hiss, hissing, hushing, fizzle, sibilation]
noun
verb
End weakly; "The music just petered out--there was no proper ending" [syn: taper off, peter out, fizzle out, fizzle]
Definition of 'fizzle'
From: GCIDE
- fizzle \fiz"zle\, n. A failure or abortive effort; a fiasco. [Colloq.] [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'fizzle'
From: GCIDE
- 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).] [See Fizz.]
- 1. To make a hissing sound. [1913 Webster]
- It is the easiest thing, sir, to be done, As plain as fizzling. --B. Jonson. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To make a ridiculous failure in an undertaking, especially after a good start; to achieve nothing. [Colloq. or Low] [1913 Webster +PJC]
- 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). [PJC]
- 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.] [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'fizzle'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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,
- bubbling,
- buffet,
- burble,
- burn out,
- bust,
- buzz,
- carbonation,
- cave in,
- collapse,
- come short,
- come to grief,
- come to naught,
- come to nothing,
- comedown,
- cruel disappointment,
- dash,
- dashed hope,
- defeat,
- die,
- die away,
- die out,
- disappointment,
- discomfiture,
- disillusionment,
- dissatisfaction,
- dull thud,
- ebullience,
- ebulliency,
- ebullition,
- effervesce,
- effervescence,
- effervescency,
- effervescing,
- expire,
- explode,
- fail,
- fail miserably,
- failure,
- fall short,
- fall through,
- fallen countenance,
- ferment,
- fermentation,
- fiasco,
- fizz,
- fizz out,
- fizzle out,
- fizzling,
- flame out,
- flat failure,
- flop,
- floperoo,
- foaming,
- foiling,
- forlorn hope,
- frication,
- frictional rustling,
- frost,
- frothiness,
- frothing,
- frustration,
- get nowhere,
- go out,
- go phut,
- go wrong,
- guggle,
- gurgle,
- hang up,
- hiss,
- hissing,
- hope deferred,
- hush,
- hushing,
- lemon,
- letdown,
- lisp,
- mirage,
- miscarry,
- misfire,
- not hack it,
- not make it,
- peter out,
- plop,
- poop out,
- rhonchus,
- seethe,
- setback,
- shush,
- shushing,
- sibilance,
- sibilate,
- sibilation,
- siffle,
- sigmatism,
- simmer,
- siss,
- sissing,
- sizz,
- sizzle,
- sizzling,
- sneeze,
- sneezing,
- sniff,
- sniffle,
- snore,
- snort,
- snuff,
- snuffle,
- sore disappointment,
- sparkle,
- spit,
- splutter,
- spumescence,
- sputter,
- squash,
- squelch,
- squish,
- sternutation,
- stertor,
- swish,
- tantalization,
- tease,
- total loss,
- turkey,
- turn sour,
- washout,
- wheeze,
- whish,
- whisper,
- whistle,
- whistling,
- white noise,
- whiz,
- whoosh,
- work,
- zip