Fizzle

What do we mean by fizzle?

To make a hissing or sputtering sound. intransitive verb

To fail or end weakly, especially after a hopeful beginning. intransitive verb

A failure. noun

To make a hissing sound; hiss or sputter, as a liquid or gas forced out of a narrow aperture, or a liquid discharging gas, or a wet combustible, as wood or gunpowder, burning: usually with special reference to the weakness and sudden diminution or cessation of such sound.

Hence To stop abruptly after a more or less brilliant start; come to a sudden and lame conclusion; fail ignominiously; specifically, in school and college slang, to fail in a recitation or an examination: often with out: as, the undertaking promised well, but it soon fizzled out; nearly the whole class fizzled in calculus.

To break wind.

In school and college slang, to examine (a student) with the result of failure on his part: as, the professor fizzled nearly the whole class.

Same as fizz, 2. noun

A fizzling or fizzing condition; hence, a state of restless agitation; a stew; worry: as, he is in a fizzle about his luggage. noun

A breaking wind. noun

A failure or an abortive effort; in particular, in school and college slang, a failure in a recitation or an examination. noun

A failure or abortive effort; a fiasco. noun

To make a hissing sound. intransitive verb

To make a ridiculous failure in an undertaking, especially after a good start; to achieve nothing. intransitive verb

To fail completely and ridiculously; to prove a failure. intransitive verb

To sputter or hiss. verb

To decay or die off to nothing; to burn out; to end less successfully than previously hoped. verb

A spluttering or hissing sound. noun

End weakly verb

A complete failure noun

A spluttering or hissing sound.

Failure of a nuclear bomb to meet its expected yield during testing.

An abortive effort; a flop or dud.

A state of agitation or worry.

Words that are spelled similarly to fizzle:
fizzle, sizzle, mizzle, frizzle, pizzle, fuzzle, bizzle, zizzle.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word fizzle:
plutonium, snoop, fission, promotions, yield, nez, bomber, fails, flood, explosion, nuclear, phoenix, test, weapons, material, enough, fort, historic, awards, show, like, rather.

Words that rhyme with fizzle:
chisel, drizzle, sizzle, grizzle, bizzell, frizzell, cold chisel, firmer chisel, drove chisel, set chisel, mizell, ripping chisel, wood chisel, grizzell, frizell, mizzell, his ill, is ill, tis ill.

Adjectives that are often used to describe fizzle:
complete, such, greasy, lazy, miserable, perfect, big, grand, great, german, damned, social, cheerful, little, correct, awful, corrosive, hopeless, whole, sad, total, much, inglorious, poor, flat, dismal, frank, disappointing, greater, mere, wretched, foolish, sudden, dreadful, damn, online, blue, utter, worse, possible, gloomy, rare.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective fizzle:
gigs, hope, fazzle.

Consonant match to fizzle:
fuzzle, foozle, foosball, faisal, feasel, feazel, feazell, phase ill.

Words that sound like fizzle:
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