The meaning of Fizzling

Fizzling – definition

verb
Make a feeble hissing or spluttering sound.
Usage examples:
The strobe lights fizzled and flickered
Synonims:
Crackle Sputter Buzz Hiss Crack Sibilate Crepitate

noun
A feeble hissing or spluttering sound.
Usage examples:
For a second there was only the electric fizzle, the sounds of hospital life going on in the backgr…

verb
Present participle of fizzle
Usage examples:
Interest in the project fizzled after the funding was withdrawn., the fire fizzled miserably in the…

Fizzling translation into English

Fizzling: translate from English into Chinese

嘶嘶作响, 嘶, 啸, 发嘶嘶声

Fizzling: translate from English into Dutch

Bruisend

Fizzling: translate from English into French

Pétillant, Pétiller

Fizzling: translate from English into German

Zischend, Zischen, Spucken

Fizzling: translate from English into Hindi

तेज़

Fizzling: translate from English into Italian

Frizzante, Sibilare, Spumeggiare, Frizzare

Fizzling: translate from English into Korean

지글지글

Fizzling: translate from English into Russian

Шипящий, Слабо шипеть

Fizzling: translate from English into Spanish

Burbujeante, Chisporrotear

Word origin

late Middle English (in the sense ‘break wind quietly’): probably imitative (compare with fizz), but perhaps related to Middle English fist (see feisty). Current senses date from the 19th cen

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Fizzling – similar words

fizzles

verb
Make a feeble hissing or spluttering sound.
Usage examples:
The strobe lights fizzled and flickered

noun
A feeble hissing or spluttering sound.
Usage examples:
For a second there was only the electric fizzle, the sounds of hospital life going on in the backgr…

verb
To finish slowly in a way that is disappointing or has become less interesting
Usage examples:
I like the way the movie starts but then it fizzles out.

All meanings and translations of Fizzles

fizzled

verb
Make a feeble hissing or spluttering sound.
Usage examples:
The strobe lights fizzled and flickered

noun
A feeble hissing or spluttering sound.
Usage examples:
For a second there was only the electric fizzle, the sounds of hospital life going on in the backgr…

verb
Past simple and past participle of fizzle
Usage examples:
Interest in the project fizzled after the funding was withdrawn., the fire fizzled miserably in the…

All meanings and translations of Fizzled

fizzle

verb
Make a feeble hissing or spluttering sound.
Usage examples:
The strobe lights fizzled and flickered

noun
A feeble hissing or spluttering sound.
Usage examples:
For a second there was only the electric fizzle, the sounds of hospital life going on in the backgr…

verb
To finish slowly in a way that is disappointing or has become less interesting
Usage examples:
I like the way the movie starts but then it fizzles out.

All meanings and translations of Fizzle

Fizzling synonims

buzz

noun
A low, continuous humming or murmuring sound, made by or similar to that made by an insect.
Usage examples:
The buzz of the bees

verb
Make a low, continuous humming sound.
Usage examples:
Mosquitoes were buzzing all around us

verb
To make a continuous, low sound such as the sound some insects make, or to move quickly while making this sound
Usage examples:
[ i ] something was buzzing around me as i tried to sleep., [ t ] all were expected to run, literal…

All meanings and translations of Buzz

crack

noun
A line on the surface of something along which it has split without breaking apart.
Usage examples:
A hairline crack down the middle of the glass

verb
Break or cause to break without a complete separation of the parts.
Usage examples:
The ice all over the bog had cracked

adjective
Very good or skilful.
Usage examples:
He is a crack shot

All meanings and translations of Crack

crackle

verb
Make a rapid succession of short sharp noises.
Usage examples:
The fire suddenly crackled and spat sparks

noun
A sound made up of a rapid succession of short sharp noises.
Usage examples:
There was a crackle and a whine from the microphone

verb
To make a set of short, sharp sounds
Usage examples:
The fire spread to an evergreen tree, which crackled with flames., the crackle of a radio broadcast

All meanings and translations of Crackle

crepitate

verb
Make a crackling sound.
Usage examples:
The night crepitates with an airy whistling cacophony

All meanings and translations of Crepitate

hiss

verb
Make a sharp sibilant sound as of the letter s.
Usage examples:
The escaping gas was hissing

noun
A sharp sibilant sound.
Usage examples:
The spit and hiss of a cornered cat

All meanings and translations of Hiss

sibilate

verb
Utter with a hissing sound.
Usage examples:
Two gentlemen turned round to me and sibilated the word ‘poet’

All meanings and translations of Sibilate

sputter

verb
Make a series of soft explosive or spitting sounds.
Usage examples:
The engine sputtered and stopped

noun
A series of soft explosive or spitting sounds.
Usage examples:
The sputter of the motor died away

verb
To make repeated explosive sounds
Usage examples:
[ i ] the plane’s engine began to sputter., [ i ] he sputtered and flapped his hands in response.

All meanings and translations of Sputter

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