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3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Fizzle \Fiz"zle\, n. A failure or abortive effort. [Colloq.] From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Fizzle \Fiz"zle\ (f[i^]z"z'l), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Fizzled} (-z'ld); p. pr & vb n. {Fizzling} (-zl[i^]ng).] [See {Fizz}.] 1. To make a hissing sound. It is the easiest thing sir, to be done As plain as fizzling. --B. Jonson 2. To make a ridiculous failure in an undertaking. [Colloq. or Low] {To fizzle out}, to burn with a hissing noise and then go out like wet gunpowder; hence to fail completely and ridiculously; to prove a failure. [Colloq.] From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: fizzle v : end weakly; "The music just petered out--there was no proper ending" [syn: {taper off}, {peter out}, {fizzle out}]
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