Thesaurus: fizzle

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1. v. i. To make a hissing sound.
2. v. i. To make a ridiculous failure in an undertaking.
3. n. A failure or abortive effort.
4. n. a fricative sound (especially as an expression of disapproval)
5. n. a complete failure
6. v. end weakly
7. 1. To make a hissing sound. It is the easfizzling. B. Jonson. 2. To make a ridiculous failure in an undertaking. [Colloq. or Low] To fizzle out, to burn with a hissing noise and then go out, like wet gunpowder; hence, to fail completely and ridicuously; to prove a failure. [Colloq.] A failure or abortive effort. [Colloq.]
8. A failure or abortive effort. [Colloq.]
9. n:15/v:85 n a fricative sound (especially as an expression of disapproval) n a complete failure v end weakly