as in hissed
to make a sound like that of stretching out the speech sound \s\
oozing gobs of grease, a pair of fatty burgers fizzled on the grill
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Recent Examples of fizzled
Jimmy Choo cofounder Tamara Mellon is said to be interested in buying the brand, but that appeared to have fizzled out.
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Vicki M. Young, Footwear News, 23 Sep. 2025
Wickremesinghe set loose the armed forces on the protests, which fizzled out rapidly, and stabilized the economy by introducing painful austerity measures backed by the International Monetary Fund.
—Kapil Komireddi, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
The mall’s previous owners put the property on sale two years ago after several ideas to redevelop the space fizzled out.
—Amanda Rosa, Miami Herald, 20 Sep. 2025
But the Orediggers’ last-ditch drive with 59 seconds to go fizzled out.
—Matt Schubert, Denver Post, 20 Sep. 2025
The diss was widely panned, and the beef seemingly fizzled out.
—Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 19 Sep. 2025
Gabrielle is the first tropical storm in the Atlantic since Fernand fizzled on August 28.
—Mary Gilbert, CNN Money, 17 Sep. 2025
Bersten briefly dated his season 27 partner, Alexis Ren, but the relationship fizzled out not long after the season wrapped.
—Kelsey Lentz, PEOPLE, 16 Sep. 2025
In recent years, the TIFF audience award had lost some of its predictive power — Mike Flanagan’s The Life of Chuck, last year’s winner, fizzled on the campaign trail — but Zhao’s victory suggests the prize could once again be a bellwether for the season ahead.
—Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 16 Sep. 2025
Vicki M. Young, Footwear News, 23 Sep. 2025
Wickremesinghe set loose the armed forces on the protests, which fizzled out rapidly, and stabilized the economy by introducing painful austerity measures backed by the International Monetary Fund.
—Kapil Komireddi, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
The mall’s previous owners put the property on sale two years ago after several ideas to redevelop the space fizzled out.
—Amanda Rosa, Miami Herald, 20 Sep. 2025
But the Orediggers’ last-ditch drive with 59 seconds to go fizzled out.
—Matt Schubert, Denver Post, 20 Sep. 2025
The diss was widely panned, and the beef seemingly fizzled out.
—Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 19 Sep. 2025
Gabrielle is the first tropical storm in the Atlantic since Fernand fizzled on August 28.
—Mary Gilbert, CNN Money, 17 Sep. 2025
Bersten briefly dated his season 27 partner, Alexis Ren, but the relationship fizzled out not long after the season wrapped.
—Kelsey Lentz, PEOPLE, 16 Sep. 2025
In recent years, the TIFF audience award had lost some of its predictive power — Mike Flanagan’s The Life of Chuck, last year’s winner, fizzled on the campaign trail — but Zhao’s victory suggests the prize could once again be a bellwether for the season ahead.
—Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 16 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for fizzled
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Getting hissed off So here’s a thing that happened.—
Dalton Ross,
Entertainment Weekly,
25 Sep. 2025
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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
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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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