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verb-intransitive. To make a hissing or sputtering sound.

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

n. Informal A failure; a fiasco.

v. To sputter or hiss.

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

n. A spluttering or hissing sound.

verb-intransitive. To make a hissing sound.

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

n. A failure or abortive effort; a fiasco.

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.

n. Same as fizz, 2.

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

n. A breaking wind.

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

v. end weakly

n. a complete failure

n. a fricative sound (especially as an expression of disapproval)

"The current market fizzle is an epiphenomenon this time around."

fizzled    fizzles    fizzling   

discontinue    noise   

fizzy    fizz   

fizzled    fizzling   

fiasco    hiss    burn    fail    failure   

Frizell    chisel    drizzle    grizzle    sizzle   

farm    call    correct    ready    hung    brought    reason    thrown    throw    sympathiser