Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - fizzle
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Fizzle
fizzle
(fizzles, fizzling, fizzled) If something fizzles, it ends in a weak or disappointing way after starting off strongly. Our relationship fizzled into nothing. VERB: V into/to n, also V • Fizzle out means the same as fizzle. The railway strike fizzled out on its second day as drivers returned to work. = peter out PHRASAL VERB: V P
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1.
I. intransitive verb (~d; fizzling) Etymology: perhaps alteration of fist to break wind Date: 1840 1. fizz 2. to fail or end feebly especially after a promising start — often used with out II. noun Date: 1846 an abortive effort ; failure ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
2.
v. & n. --v.intr. make a feeble hissing or spluttering sound. --n. such a sound. Phrases and idioms fizzle out end feebly (the party fizzled out at 10 o'clock). Etymology: formed as FIZZ + -LE(4) ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
3.
1. легкое шипение 2. волнение, беспокойство 3. разг. неудача, провал, фиаско 4. слегка шипеть 5. (обыкн. fizzle out) разг. гаснуть, не успев разгореться 6. разг. выдыхаться 7. разг. окончиться неудачей, провалом; потерпеть фиаско ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
4.
out выдыхаться; fig. кончаться неудачей FIZZLE 1. noun 1) шипящий звук 2) coll. фиаско, неудача 2. v. слабо шипеть - fizzle out ...Англо-русский словарь
5.
~ v fizzle out phr v informal to gradually stop happening, especially because people become less interested in something (Their romance just fizzled out.) ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
6.
- c.1532, "to break wind without noise," probably altered from obsolete fist, from M.E. fisten "break wind" (see feisty). Sense of "failure, fiasco" is from 1846. ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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