fizzle+out
61miss — I v 1. fail to catch or get, miscalculate, mistime, ill time; bobble, bungle, goof, muff, slip; let slip through one s fingers, misplace, lose; fail to attain or accomplish, come up short, Sl. blow the chance, Sl. blow, be left at the starting… …
62blow up — Synonyms and related words: accelerate, add to, adulate, aggrandize, aggravate, amplify, annoy, apotheosize, arouse, augment, awake, awaken, backfire, be angry, be excitable, beef up, belaud, belie, bellow, bepraise, blast, bless, blitz, bloat,… …
63hang up — Synonyms and related words: adjourn, afterthought, bind, block, blockade, blockage, blow up, bog down, bottleneck, bureaucratic delay, buzz, call, call up, catch, come to nothing, complex, compulsion, continue, cordon, curtain, decelerate, defer …
64fall short — Synonyms and related words: be disappointing, be found wanting, be inferior, be insufficient, collapse, come short, crash, decline, fail, fail of, fall, fall away, fall dead, fall down, fall flat, fall in, fall shy, fall stillborn, fall through,… …
65go wrong — Synonyms and related words: abort, backslide, be disappointing, be in error, be mistaken, be wrong, break down, come short, conk out, degenerate, deviate, err, fall, fall into error, fall short, fizzle, fizzle out, give out, go amiss, go astray,… …
66misfire — Synonyms and related words: abort, abortion, abortive attempt, blow up, come a cropper, come to nothing, dud, explode, fail, fail miserably, failure, fall through, fizz out, fizzle, fizzle out, flop, get nowhere, go amiss, go astray, go phut, go… …
67misfire — [v] fail abort, backfire, blunder, break down, come to nothing, explode, fall flat*, fall short*, fizzle, fizzle out, fizz out, flop, flounder, go up in smoke*, go wrong, miscarry, miss, peter out, poop out, slip; concept 699 …
68taper off — verb 1. end weakly (Freq. 1) The music just petered out there was no proper ending • Syn: ↑peter out, ↑fizzle out, ↑fizzle • Hypernyms: ↑discontinue • …
69misfire — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. fail, abort; fizzle, sputter; backfire. See failure. II (Roget s IV) v. Syn. fail to fire, miss, fizzle out*; see explode 1 , fail 1 . III (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) v. fail, fizzle, miss, *shoot a… …
70languish — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. i. weaken, fail, fade, decline; pine, droop. See disease, dejection, weakness. II (Roget s IV) v. 1. [To weaken] Syn. fade, fail, droop; see weaken 1 . 2. [To want] Syn. hunger, pine, deSire; see need …
