Usually means: Lost momentum and failed quietly.
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General (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. fizzled: Merriam-Webster
  2. fizzled: Collins English Dictionary
  3. fizzled: Vocabulary.com
  4. Fizzled, fizzled: Wordnik
  5. fizzled: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. fizzled: Wiktionary
  7. Fizzled, fizzled: Dictionary.com
  8. fizzled: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Fizzled: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. Fizzled: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. fizzled: FreeDictionary.org
  12. fizzled: TheFreeDictionary.com

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Fizzled: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (fizzle)

verb:  To sputter or hiss.
verb:  (figuratively, informal) To decay or die off to nothing; to burn out; to end less successfully than previously hoped.
verb:  (military, of a nuclear weapon) To fail to generate the expected yield when exploded during testing.
noun:  A spluttering or hissing sound.
noun:  (military) Failure of an exploding nuclear bomb to meet its expected yield during testing.
noun:  An abortive effort; a flop or dud.
noun:  A state of agitation or worry.
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