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Definition of Fizzle out
1. Verb. End weakly. "The music just petered out--there was no proper ending"
Definition of Fizzle out
1. Verb. To lose excitement, to become less exciting. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fizzle Out
Literary usage of Fizzle out
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An American Glossary by Richard Hopwood Thornton (1912)
"Fizzle, fizzle out. To fail, particularly in a class recitation. ... 1866 Blamed
if every giggle I tried to make didn't fizzle out into a regular whine. ..."
2. Dictionary of Americanisms: A Glossary of Words and Phrases Usually Regarded by John Russell Bartlett (1860)
"To fizzle out. To be quenched, extinguished; to prove a failure. A favorite
expression in ... He don't fizzle out. You like him better and better every day. ..."
3. The Catholic Record (1871)
"To fizzle out," to make a complete failure. "The factious and revolutionary ...
You never get tired of a good horse, he doesn't fizzle out." (Sam Slick. ..."
4. A Dictionary of English Synonymes and Synonymous Or Parallel Expressions by Richard Soule (1871)
"Hiss, make a hissing of it, fizzle out. Fizzle, n. [Colloquial.] Failure, fiasco,
noise. 8. [Colloquial. ... fizzle out, Fail, FIZZLE. * Flabbergasted, a. ..."
5. Nature and Human Nature by Thomas Chandler Haliburton (1855)
"He don't fizzle out* like the rest. You like him. better and better every day.
He seems a part of yourself; he is your better half, your ' halter ..."
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