fizzle
End with whimper
Fizzle is to sputter weakly and die out.
A firework fizzles when it fails to explode properly.
More often the word describes endeavors that start promisingly but end in disappointment: The romance fizzled after a few weeks.
To fizzle out emphasizes the gradual decline: The protest movement fizzled out by summer.
A fizzle is such a failure.
Diminish gradually until gone
- sputter outFail gradually, weakly
- die outCease to exist entirely
- collapseSudden structural failure
- flopComplete commercial failure
bust · washout · misfire · dud · nonstarter · letdown · disappointment · anticlimax
Emitting light stick
- damp squibUnderwhelming outcome after buildup
- misfireFailure to discharge
- dudFailed device or effort
- sputterEmit irregular popping sounds
smoke · ember · spark · firecracker · flare out · smoke bomb
peter out
Diminish gradually until gone
- sputter outFail gradually, weakly
- die outCease to exist entirely
- collapseSudden structural failure
flop · bust · washout · misfire · dud · nonstarter · letdown · disappointment · anticlimax · debacle
sparkler
Emitting light stick
- damp squibUnderwhelming outcome after buildup
- misfireFailure to discharge
- dudFailed device or effort
sputter · smoke · ember · spark · firecracker · flare out · smoke bomb
sizzle
Sound of frying
sputter · effervesce · bubble · snap · whoosh · sparkle · puff · wheeze · splutter
bubble
Air-filled film sphere
- effervesceEmit gas bubbles
- sparkleEmit flashing light
- foamBubble-filled substance
froth · carbonate · soda · tonic · seltzer · champagne · prosecco · spritz · flat
- diminishingabate, decrease, diminish, dwindle, ebb
- disappointmentsletdown, anticlimax, flop, dud, bust
- Double Lettersbookkeeper, Mississippi, Tennessee, Massachusetts, balloon
- failingfail, fails, collapse, flop, bomb
- failuresfailure, failures, flop, flops, bust
- letdownsletdown, disappointment, anticlimax, dud, flop
- gin fizzEffervescent juniper-citrus cocktail
- fizzle outFail after promising start
- fizzling outGradually losing momentum
- lost its fizz
- sloe gin fizzSparkling blackthorn berry cocktail
- lemon fizzEffervescent citrus drink