sizzle

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Sci-fi tends to glamorize laser weapons (pew pew, you're dead), when in reality the experts say getting "shot" with will probably feel more like napalm (* sizzle sizzle*, protracted death).

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  1. intransitive verb To make the hissing sound characteristic of frying fat.
  2. intransitive verb To seethe with anger or indignation.
  3. intransitive verb To be very hot: a summer day that sizzled.
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  • They tick or they sizzle, and I have good ears and have listened. —  Rex Stout - Nero Wolfe 01 - Fer-de-Lance
  • The flames leapt high with a roar and a sizzle, and the yellow smoke that followed carried the distinctive odor of brimstone. —  BEWITCHING FAMILIAR
  • Here Chainer caught the disc and dropped it into the slot There was a hiss and a sizzle, and then fragrant smoke began to pour out between the bars of the pewter cage Place it on a hot coal, ; Skellum said, ;and it produces a strong scent and thick smoke. —  SCOTT McGOUGH
  • There was a sizzle, and the Geg yelped in pain and snatched back burned fingers. —  Death Gate Cycle 1 - Dragon Wing
  • Now I know you heat a couple of tablespoons of oil in a hot skillet (or wok), add a couple of cloves of minced garlic and stir until they sizzle, then swirl in two beaten eggs and cook, stirring once in a while, until they are half-cooked.
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Used in the same context Used in the Same Context

crackle ·  sputter ·  white-hot ·  hiss ·  blue-white ·  savory ·  juicy ·  smoky ·  hot ·  sicken ·  tingle ·  whoosh

Used in the same contextWord Family

sizzle:   sizzling ·  sizzled ·  sizzles
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Perhaps frequentative of Middle English sissen, to hiss, of imitative origin.

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  1. A freq. of sizz, like sissle, freq. of siss.
  2. from sizzle, v.
 

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