to fizzle
27
5.6
- verb
- /ˈfɪzəl/
- Informal
:
desinflarse
- The fireworks were spectacular at first, but they started to fizzle before the grand finale.
I just kept quiet and I let it fizzle away.
- I just kept quiet and I let it fizzle away.
- So why do, why do child prodigies fizzle out?
- They make you feel good for a short but a time, but it fizzles.
- And if you do it incorrectly, you basically just fizzle because that was a a flash in the pan.
- If you're a terrorist, you don't care if you got to put it together right now and you don't care if it fizzles.
- Still, while it could fizzle into nothing, we're far from out of options to pursue because science never really ends.
- You're just talentless and everything fizzled away once, you know, shit simmered down a little bit.
- In other words, some connection might happen real quick, but also might fizzle out real quick.
- So you see many relationships that start off hot and heavy and they fizzle out big time.
- He was devoured by Trump on the debate stage and he kind of fizzled out.
- Hot and heavy relationships falling too fast and why this fizzles out as fast as it starts typically.
- NA Group that focuses on things like COVID says earlier strains of the coronavirus fizzled out.
- Ultimately, the script fizzled out and he fizzled out in such a drastic and dramatic fashion.
Examples
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Still, while it could fizzle into nothing, we're far from out of options to pursue because science never really ends.
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Many patterns just fizzle out, but a few keep growing forever.
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In other words, some connection might happen real quick, but also might fizzle out real quick.
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I mean, I love him, but things tend to fizzle every now and then if you know what I mean.
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Okay, guys, don't start anything until this party starts to fizzle though, okay?
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Match after match disappears into his elaborate stone structure, only to fizzle out.
Fiction book (1993) -
But little had changed by 1952 when another Senate proposal fizzled and died in committee.
Academic text (2007) -
But for most Americans, the comet fizzled in the public relations department.
Academic text (1992) -
I was under the impression that research on NLP fizzled out years ago due to disappointing results.
Blog text (21) -
Around this point, herd immunity kicks in where the virus can no longer find new hosts, so the pandemic fizzles out a short time after it began.
Synonyms
9
5.6
To slowly become weaker and then stop
9
4.5
To become smaller or weaker over time until it stops
8
5.3
To gradually lose energy or interest and end weakly
Finish in a way that leaves people disappointed or unhappy
Antonyms
Phrasal Verbs
How Strong
- Specialized
156
3.2
350
4.1
- Informal
27
5.6
9
5.6
69
3.0
8
4.2
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
To fizzle comes from fizz, the soft 'hiss' or bubbling noise, so think of something that begins with a spark but slowly dies into a weak sound; that is why to fizzle means to end weakly or to disappoint.