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Fizzle Out

Definition: Fizzle Out

Fizzle Out

Verb

1. End weakly; "The music just petered out--there was no proper ending".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

 

Synonyms: Fizzle Out

Synonyms: fizzle (v), peter out (v), taper off (v). (additional references)

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Expression: Fizzle Out

Expression using "fizzle out": To fizzle out. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Fizzle Out

Language Translations for "fizzle out"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

vërshëllen (fizz), tretet (digest, dissolve, evanesce, evaporate), shuhem (be dying, burn out, die, die out, evanesce, expire, fade, fade out, vanish, wear away, wear off, wither), përfundoj me dështim. (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏فشل (balk, be failed, be unable to do, be unsuccessful, come to nothing, cower, defeat, dud, fail, failure, fiasco, flop, frustration, go awry, go wrong, lose courage, lose ground, lose heart, make a hash of it, miscarry, miss, miss fire, miss the mark, torpedo, trip up, unsuccess, washout), ‏خفق (baulk, beat, beating, bust, collapse, come, come to grief, dilute, fall, flap, flummox, flunk, go by the board, go wrong, goof, misfire, miss, muddle, pit-a-pat, pound, pulsate, pulsation, throb, whip), ‏إخفاق (baulk, bust, deadlock, failure, frost, lemon, miscarriage, miss, screw, setback, smash, turkey, unsuccess, wall, wrack). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

провалям се (break down, collapse, come to grief, fail, fall through, fold, go awry, go phut, go to pot, go wrong, misfire, slump, sour, tumble down). (various references)

   

Czech

  

zhasnout (black out, douse, go off, go out, pack up, snuff out, switch off, turn off, turn out), splasknout (go down), selhat (abort, backfire, break down, come to nothing, fail, fall down on the job, give out, go wrong, lapse, miscarry, misfire), rozplynout se (clear away, come to nothing, disappear, disperse, dissolve, dwindle away), opadnout (go down, subside), ochabnout (become flabby, decline, decrease, flag, quail, sag, slacken). (various references)

   

French

  

finir en eau de boudin, se terminer en queue de poisson. (various references)

   

German

  

totlaufen (peter out). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

לעלות בתו"ו, ל"כשל (come to grief, dud, fail, fall, fall over, fall through, founder, miscarry, miss fire), ל"סתים בלא כלום. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

meghiúsul (to be frustrated, to come to nothing, to fail, to fall through, to fall to the ground, to flat out, to miscarry, to misfire, to shatter, to turn out crabs). (various references)

   

Manx

  

cheet gys veg (fall down), cheet gys neunhee. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

izzlefay outay.(various references)

   

Russian 

  

выдыхаться (peter out). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

nemati uspeh. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

terminar sin resultados, apagarse (blow out, burn out, dim, fade, fade away, fade out, go out). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

fräsa till och slockna, sluta snöpligt. (various references)

   

Thai

  

ล้มเหลว (หลังจากที่เริ่มต้นมาอย่าง"ี) (คำไม่เป็นทางการ). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

suya düşmek (collapse, come to grief, come to naught, come to nought, come unstuck, fail, fall through, fizzle, flop, go by the board, go phut, go to pot, miscarry, peter out), boşa çıkmak (be blighted, come to naught, come to nothing, come to nought, fail, fizzle, founder, go by the board, puncture). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

гаснути (slake), видихатися. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Fizzle Out

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-f-i-l-o-t-u-z-z"

-3 letters: fizzle, futile, outlie, touzle, tufoli.

-4 letters: filet, flite, flout, flute, fuzil, louie, ouzel, teloi, toile, utile, zlote.

-5 letters: etui, felt, file, filo, fizz, flit, floe, flue, foil, foul, fuel, futz, fuze, fuzz, left, lief, lieu, life, lift, lite, litu, loft, loti, lout, lute, lutz, tile, tofu, toil, tole, tolu, tule.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Expressions
4. Translations: Modern
5. Anagrams
6. Bibliography


  

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