fizzle

1. To make a hissing sound. It is the easfizzling. B. Jonson. 2. To make a ridiculous failure in an undertaking. [Colloq. or Low] To fizzle out, to burn with a hissing noise and then go out, like wet gunpowder; hence, to fail completely and ridicuously; to prove a failure. [Colloq.] A failure or abortive effort. [Colloq.]

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