fizzle

verbcollapse, fall through

Word Origin & History

1530s, "to break wind without noise," probably altered from obsolete fist, from Middle English fisten "break wind" (see feisty) + frequentative suffix -le. Related: Fizzled; fizzling.

Noun sense of "failure, fiasco" is from 1846, originally U.S. college slang for "failure in an exam." Barnhart says it is "not considered as derived from the verb." The verb in this sense is from 1847.

Example Sentences for fizzle

It was a lot easier just to let her explode and then fizzle out.

And I must say, as a raid in force, it was more or less of a fizzle.

The Raid was a fizzle and the commander and all his men were captured by the Boers.

It is a fizzle, a twentieth-century abomination—an invention with no room for an ad.

You must be so well equipped that you will not make life a “fizzle.”

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