When something fizzles out, it gradually ends or disappears, especially in a disappointing way.
Informal English.
Examples of use:
1. The firework display fizzled out early and we all went home.
2. The job offers fizzled out after a few weeks.
3. The party had fizzled out by 10pm.
4. The housing boom will fizzle out in 2012.
| infinitive |
fizzle out |
| present simple |
fizzle out and fizzles out |
| -ing form |
fizzling out |
| past simple |
fizzled out |
| past participle |
fizzled out |
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