Meaning & use
Fizzling
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Gradually losing energy, strength, or interest, and failing, especially after a promising start.
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The fireworks display ended with a few fizzling sparklers rather than a grand finale.
Their friendship was fizzling out after months of not speaking.
A note on using this word
Often paired with 'out,' as in 'fizzling out,' to describe something that ends weakly or anticlimactically.
Words with a similar meaning
petering outdying down
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