fizzling out
Losing steam slowly
Fizzling out is gradually losing energy, enthusiasm, or momentum until something ends weakly rather than decisively.
The image comes from a fuse or firework that sputters and dies instead of igniting properly.
Relationships fizzle out, campaigns fizzle out, conversations fizzle out: The protest movement fizzled out after a few weeks.
The ending feels anticlimactic rather than dramatic.
- dyingCeasing to live
- fadingGradual loss of intensity
- peteringGradually diminishing to nothing
- waningGradually decreasing in intensity
- sputteringParticle ejection from surfaces
last gasp · dwindling · tapering · running on fumes · deflating · extinguishing · losing steam · burning out · slow death · trailing off · running dry · dead end · dissolving · ebbing · going nowhere · withering · collapsing · stalling
- declinedecline, in decline, decrease, downswing, on the decline
fizzling outexploding
Bursting outward violently
going out with a bang · building up · blowing up · erupting · detonating
fizzling outflourishing
Prospering vigorously
thriving · blossoming · taking off · succeeding · bearing fruit
fizzle, fizzled, fizzling, fizzles, fizz, fizzy, fizziness, outing, outward