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oozing gobs of grease, a pair of fatty burgers fizzled on the grill
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The same day that Freitas was charged, Rizzo stepped down as CEO of his family company, which also fizzled amid the scandal.
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The attention was on the final-group pairing of Reed and Rory McIlroy, whose Masters aspirations fizzled yet again.
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Also in the ’60s, Bera was asked to participate in a week-long testing program of potential women astronauts at the Lovelace Clinic in Albuquerque, N.M., where the original seven astronauts were tested, but the women’s program fizzled out.
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Arizona gets trapped in a love triangle with Hunt and Carina, which fizzles when Hunt just seems to randomly lose interest in the orgasm expert.
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On Thursday, Kroger joined Walmart, Target, Dollar Tree and others that have reported disappointing holiday results as sales and profits fizzled.
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In 2007, both men pursued a lawsuit against Murray that fizzled before it was filed.
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Jayson Tatum's 3-pointer with 2:01 remaining trimmed Philadelphia's lead to 86-79, but Boston's rally fizzled from there.
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That is especially true as the last promising lead, the detection of underwater pings consistent with a jet's data recorders, fizzled out after an initial deep sea hunt came up empty.
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Origin and Etymology of fizzle
perhaps alteration of fist to break wind
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First Known Use: 1840
in the meaning defined at sense 1
See Words from the same yearExamples of fizzle in a Sentence
the home team's unexpected fizzle in that last game cost them the championship
the play was a fizzle, opening and closing the same night
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And then, yes, many times that inevitable fizzle of disappointment.
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But any notion that the Iowan—who died in 1942, of pancreatic cancer, on the day before his fifty-first birthday—is an underrated artist fizzles.
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Still, any argument for keeping Smith fizzles under the scrutiny of reality.
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Read more: 6 CEOs Who Beat the Odds to Reach the Corner Office After nine years, the sum of the fizzles and false starts led her to look elsewhere.
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The Weinstein effect: Will the #MeToo moment fizzle?
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This summer, shares at AMC, Cinemark and Regal Entertainment Group RGC 0.19% have steadily fallen, hit by numerous fizzles at the box office.
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Failure to tell its story with any economy at all gets in the way of what should be an opportunity to hail The Punisher as a Marvel bounce-back after the disaster that was Iron Fist, improving on that fizzle on nearly every level.
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Yet as a comment on the ultra-rational vs. the supernatural, the film fizzles.
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First Known Use of fizzle
1846
fizzle Synonyms
Synonyms
bomb, bummer, bust, catastrophe, clinker, clunker, debacle (also débâcle), disaster, dud, failure, fiasco, flop, frost, lemon, loser, miss, turkey, washout;
Antonyms
blockbuster, hit, smash, success, winner;
Near Antonyms
corker, crackerjack (also crackajack), dandy, jim-dandy, phenomenon;
Related Words
also-ran, disappointment, dog, has-been, near miss;
FIZZLE Defined for English Language Learners
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Definition of fizzle for Students
fizzled;
fizzling
: to fail after a good start
- Our winning streak fizzled out.
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