fizzle

1. 1.

   end weakly

   “The music just petered out--there was no proper ending”

   Synonymstaper offpeter outfizzle out

   Broaderdiscontinue

Other forms of fizzle

plural

fizzles·

past tense

fizzled·

present participle

fizzling·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about fizzle

What does fizzle mean?

fizzle means "a fricative sound (especially as an expression of disapproval)". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in fizzle?

fizzle has 2 syllables: fiz-zle. The stress falls on "fiz". In IPA it is /ˈfɪzəl/.

What is another word for fizzle?

Close synonyms include hiss, hissing, hushing, sibilation, flop. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is fizzle a common word?

fizzle is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.