Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to fizzle
Participle: fizzled
Gerund: fizzling
Indicative
Present
| I | fizzle |
| you | fizzle |
| he;she;it | fizzles |
| we | fizzle |
| you | fizzle |
| they | fizzle |
Perfect
| I | have fizzled |
| you | have fizzled |
| he;she;it | has fizzled |
| we | have fizzled |
| you | have fizzled |
| they | have fizzled |
Past
| I | fizzled |
| you | fizzled |
| he;she;it | fizzled |
| we | fizzled |
| you | fizzled |
| they | fizzled |
Pluperfect
| I | had fizzled |
| you | had fizzled |
| he;she;it | had fizzled |
| we | had fizzled |
| you | had fizzled |
| they | had fizzled |
Future
| I | will fizzle |
| you | will fizzle |
| he;she;it | will fizzle |
| we | will fizzle |
| you | will fizzle |
| they | will fizzle |
Future Perfect
| I | will have fizzled |
| you | will have fizzled |
| he;she;it | will have fizzled |
| we | will have fizzled |
| you | will have fizzled |
| they | will have fizzled |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | fizzle |
| you | fizzle |
| he;she;it | fizzle |
| we | fizzle |
| you | fizzle |
| they | fizzle |
Perfect
| I | have fizzled |
| you | have fizzled |
| he;she;it | have fizzled |
| we | have fizzled |
| you | have fizzled |
| they | have fizzled |
Imperfect
| I | fizzled |
| you | fizzled |
| he;she;it | fizzled |
| we | fizzled |
| you | fizzled |
| they | fizzled |
Pluperfect
| I | had fizzled |
| you | had fizzled |
| he;she;it | had fizzled |
| we | had fizzled |
| you | had fizzled |
| they | had fizzled |
Conditional
Present
| I | would fizzle |
| you | would fizzle |
| he;she;it | would fizzle |
| we | would fizzle |
| you | would fizzle |
| they | would fizzle |
Perfect
| I | would have fizzled |
| you | would have fizzled |
| he;she;it | would have fizzled |
| we | would have fizzled |
| you | would have fizzled |
| they | would have fizzled |
Imperative
| you | fizzle |
| we | Let's fizzle |
| you | fizzle |
Verbs conjugated like 'fizzle'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'fizzle'
frizzle,
fuzzle,
mizzle,
rizzle,
sizzle,
zizzle,
bezzle,
buzzle,
crizzle,
dazzle,
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. c.1532, "to break wind without noise," probably altered from obsolete
fist, from M.E.
fisten "break wind" (see feisty). Sense of "failure, fiasco" is from 1846, originally U.S. college slang for "failure in an exam."
2. Attested in English since 1525-35. From earlier fysel (“to fart”). Related to fīsa (“to fart”). Compare with Swedish fisa (“to fart (silently)”). See also feist.
3. It could also come from old Norse: "fise" simply means "blow," like in "blow in the wind." A weather-exposed community in Rogaland, Norway, is called Fister. (In modern language, the verb "fisle" has the same 3 meanings as in English, see below.) See: Swedish '
fisa'.
Sample Sentences
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The soda fizzled for several minutes after it was poured.
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It is the easest thing, sir, to be done, / As plain as fizzling. [1616, Ben Jonson, The Devil Is an Ass:]
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The entire project fizzled after the founder quit.
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I had a suspicion that Stephanie's native ingenuity rather fizzled there. You know, Stephanie dear, there is a difference, it seems, between Bombay and Californian pearls. [1914, Ernest Bramah, Max Carrados:]
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And so it fizzled to its close with Gary Cahill galloping around as an extra centre-forward, mutinous chants of “you’re not fit to wear the shirt,” from the England followers and Hodgson’s media staff announcing he would not take any questions. [2016 June 27, Daniel Taylor, “England humiliated as Iceland knock them out of Euro 2016”, in The Guardian, London:]
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The shot fizzled, generating only 200 tons rather than the 30 kilotons they were aiming for.