In a drizzle, a fire will fizzle.
Source: tatoeba (3960785)
Fizzle
Synonyms for "fizzle" (169 found)
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Noun(4 words)
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Translations
42 translations across 11 languages.
Armenian
3 entries- թեթև ֆշշոց noun (spluttering or hissing sound)
- թեթև ֆշշալ verb (to splutter or hiss)
- թշշալ verb (to splutter or hiss)
Bulgarian
3 entries- шипене noun (spluttering or hissing sound)
- провалям се verb (to decay or die off to nothing)
- шипя verb (to splutter or hiss)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 失败 verb (to decay or die off to nothing)
- （计划）流产 verb (to decay or die off to nothing)
Czech
2 entries- syčet verb (to splutter or hiss)
- šumět verb (to splutter or hiss)
Danish
3 entries- brusen noun (spluttering or hissing sound)
- bruse verb (to splutter or hiss)
- ebbe ud verb (to decay or die off to nothing)
Finnish
3 entries- pihinä noun (spluttering or hissing sound)
- kuivua kokoon verb (to decay or die off to nothing)
- pihistä verb (to splutter or hiss)
German
4 entries- fehlschlagen verb (to decay or die off to nothing)
- im Sande verlaufen verb (to decay or die off to nothing)
- missglücken verb (to decay or die off to nothing)
- totlaufen verb (to decay or die off to nothing)
Polish
4 entries- fiasko noun (flop or dud)
- syk noun (spluttering or hissing sound)
- brać w łeb verb (to decay or die off to nothing)
- spalić na panewce verb (to decay or die off to nothing)
Russian
4 entries- шипение noun (spluttering or hissing sound)
- выдохнуться verb (to decay or die off to nothing)
- потерпеть фиа́ско verb (to decay or die off to nothing)
- шипе́ть verb (to splutter or hiss)
Spanish
4 entries- esfumarse verb (to decay or die off to nothing)
- fundir verb (to decay or die off to nothing)
- fundirse apagarse verb (to decay or die off to nothing)
- menguar verb (to decay or die off to nothing)
Swedish
4 entries- fräsande noun (spluttering or hissing sound)
- pysande noun (spluttering or hissing sound)
- fräsa verb (to splutter or hiss)
- pysa verb (to splutter or hiss)
Sample sentences
8 total sentences available.
Her projects always start out great, then fizzle out.
Source: tatoeba (8985290)
Patchy outbreaks of rain will soon fizzle out in the west, leaving the rest of the day bright and sunny.
Source: tatoeba (9479981)
The soda fizzled for several minutes after it was poured.
Source: wiktionary
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.