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Fuzzled vs Fizzled - What's the difference?

fuzzled | fizzled |

As verbs the difference between fuzzled and fizzled

is that fuzzled is past tense of fuzzle while fizzled is past tense of fizzle.

fuzzled

English

Verb

(head)
  • (fuzzle)

  • fuzzle

    English

    Verb

    (fuzzl)
  • (obsolete) To make drunk; to intoxicate.
  • (Burton)
    (Webster 1913)

    fizzled

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (fizzle)

  • fizzle

    English

    Verb

    (fizzl)
  • To sputter or hiss.
  • ''The soda fizzled for several minutes after it was poured.
  • * Ben Jonson
  • It is the easest thing, sir, to be done, / As plain as fizzling .
  • (figuratively) To decay or die off to nothing; to burn out; to end less successfully than previously hoped.
  • The entire project fizzled after the founder retired.

    Derived terms

    * fizzler

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A spluttering or hissing sound.
  • Failure of a nuclear bomb to meet its expected yield during testing.