fizzle
咝咝声,咝咝作响,咝咝声响,泡影
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Definitions
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fiz·zled, fiz·zling.
- : to make a hissing or sputtering sound, especially one that dies out weakly.
- : Informal. to fail ignominiously after a good start: The reform movement fizzled out because of poor leadership.
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- : a fizzling, hissing, or sputtering.
- : Informal. a failure; fiasco.
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Examples
Robin had so much energy, the electricity from your electrical device would fizzle.
Could Occupy Wall Street yet prove a harbinger rather than a fizzle?
He predicted that without more mobilization and pressure from outside, reform could “fizzle.”
But the thing about phenoms is they can come in hot and then fizzle into a lower voltage of play.
If U.S.-Pakistan cooperation were in fact to fizzle, clearly such operations would be compromised.
He was a fizzle and a stick, he knew it, he knew nothing else, and there is an undercurrent of bitterness in him.
But, as his rhyme ended with such an ignominious fizzle, he hurried away with a snort of disgust.
“And I know you labor under a mistake,” said Fizzle, elevating his chin, and folding his arms pugnaciously over his striped vest.
"I am sorry that it has been such a fizzle," she turned to him with a sort of shy, girlish friendliness and impulsiveness.
A match lit up the darkness; he caught the well-known purr and fizzle of grains of incense.