fizzle
verb [intransitive]Verb Forms
Phrasal Verbs| present simple I / you / we / they fizzle | |
| he / she / it fizzles | |
| past simple fizzled | |
| past participle fizzled | |
| -ing form fizzling |
when something, especially something that is burning, fizzles, it makes a weak sound like a long ‘s’ （火等）发出嘶嘶声 Fireworks fizzled and exploded in the night sky. 烟火嘶嘶作响，在夜空中爆炸。
Word Originlate Middle English (in the sense ‘break wind quietly’): probably imitative (compare with fizz), but perhaps related to Middle English fist ‘small dog’, from fisting cur or hound, a derogatory term for a lapdog, from Middle English fist ‘break wind’, of West Germanic origin. Current senses date from the 19th cent.