fizzed

past tense of fizz
as in hissed
to make a sound like that of stretching out the speech sound \s\ soda pop fizzing in the glass

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Recent Examples of fizzed Alex fizzed in a pinpoint cross to De Rosario, who nodded home from four yards out. Henry Bushnell, New York Times, 1 Sep. 2025
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Verb
  • Getting hissed off So here’s a thing that happened.
    Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 25 Sep. 2025
  • Nineteen hours after departure the train took its final breath, hissed and braked into the historic port of Narvik.
    The Editors, Outside, 31 Aug. 2025
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  • With such enviable success, questions have bubbled over the years as to whether the Parasite outfit could be bought by a larger entity or a group of investors.
    Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 28 Sep. 2025
  • Lichtenberg thinks the atmosphere most likely bubbled up from the planet’s magma ocean.
    Elise Cutts, Scientific American, 23 Sep. 2025

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“Fizzed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fizzed. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.

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