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fizzlefiz‧zle /ˈfɪzəl/ verb  fizzleOrigin: 1500-1600 Probably from fist ‘to fart’ (15-17 centuries) VERB TABLEfizzle |
Present | I, you, we, they | fizzle | | he, she, it | fizzles | Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | fizzled | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have fizzled | | he, she, it | has fizzled | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had fizzled | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will fizzle | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have fizzled |
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Present | I | am fizzling | | he, she, it | is fizzling | | you, we, they | are fizzling | Past | I, he, she, it | was fizzling | | you, we, they | were fizzling | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been fizzling | | he, she, it | has been fizzling | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been fizzling | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be fizzling | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been fizzling |
- The project fizzled and Turner left the company.
- A blizzard kept demonstrators away, and a planned church vigil reportedly fizzled for lack of interest.
- In the past, hand-held communicating units, with more limited functions, have fizzled.
- The plan was carried out a century later, but at the time it fizzled.
- The road fizzled out at a gate plastered with fire hazard warnings, leading on to the moor itself.
- The story fizzled when two things were learned.
to gradually stop happening► fizzle out informal to gradually end in a disappointing way - use this about an activity, a relationship, or people's interest in something: · Their romance fizzled out after a few months.· The movie made a great start, but the action seemed to fizzle out halfway through. ► peter out to gradually become less and less and then stop happening completely: · By midday the rain had petered out.· The road petered out into a muddy track.· The protest campaign petered out after a few weeks. ► wear off if pain or the effect of something wears off , it gradually becomes less until it stops completely: · The effects of the anaesthetic will wear off within a few hours.· The shock has not worn off yet and he seems to be walking around in a daze.the novelty wears off (=when you stop feeling interested or excited about something because it is no longer new): · The kids spent hours on the computer at first, but the novelty soon wore off. ► fade away if a sound fades away , it gradually gets quieter and finally stops: · He waited until the sound of the engines had faded away.· As the music faded away the audience broke into enthusiastic applause. ADVERB► out· Just a few weeks ago he had been saying the whole affair would fizzle out and Banfield would sink back into anonymity once more.· It was like a rocket, brilliant to start with then fizzling out to nothing.· The road fizzled out at a gate plastered with fire hazard warnings, leading on to the moor itself.· After a promising start, the campaign fizzled out in the summer when the full Co-operative Congress refused to back it.· Over billions of years it will slowly fizzle out to become a black dwarf.· Partly he hoped her star would quickly fizzle out. fizzle out phrasal verb informal to gradually stop happening, especially because people become less interested: Their romance just fizzled out. |