fizzing
present participle offizz
fizz
verb[I]
uk/fɪz/us/fɪz/fizzverb[I](PRODUCE GAS)
If aliquidfizzes, itproducesa lot ofbubblesand makes acontinuousssound:
I couldhearthechampagnefizz as hepouredit into myglass.
Physical & chemical processes
- absorbable
- absorptive
- absorptive capacity
- acidification
- addition reaction
- condense
- evaporate
- evaporation
- excitability
- excitation
- excite
- exergonic
- nuclear fission
- oxidize
- recondense
- redox
- refraction
- rehydrate
- reliquefy
- solidify
fizzverb[I](SOUND)
to make alongsoundlike the s in "sing":
Fireworks fizzed above thecrowd.
Sounds made by objects, movement or impact
- babble
- blaze
- bong
- chuff
- clatter
- click away
- clicker
- clinking
- clunk
- crump
- growl
- gunshot
- hiss
- jangling
- plunk
- scrunch
- sonic boom
- tick
- white noise
- whoosh
Examplesoffizzing
fizzing
In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
Staff arefizzingwith ideas, which we must allow them to try out.
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Some of them have been somewhat subsumed, but there are border disputes quietlyfizzingalong.
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We were told that he was "brimming with energy"and"fizzing" with new ideas.
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On this occasion he was at hisfizzingbest.
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They are oftenfizzingwith ideas.
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For example, there was the little boy who, asked to collect some potassium cyanide, got the crystals in a plastic bucket and noticed that they startedfizzing.
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A splash of water then produced thefizzingeffect.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.When the powder dissolves, the acids and sodium bicarbonate react with liquid (saliva or water) to produce carbon dioxide bubbles and afizzingsensation.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.It is known for the distinctive blue bottle in which it comes and thefizzingaction it exhibits when used.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.There have been combination products used to produce bothfizzingand foaming effects with baths.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Instead of swearing he used sayfizzinga lot, as in the opposition are afizzingtough bunch.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Therefore, she does not get out of the wheelchair when it does and as thefizzingmakes it roll away, she goes along with it.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The song is an electro infused dance cut that features the use offizzingsynthesizers and a drum machine with drums and a piano loop starting off the song.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The excess of her drinking is reinforced the next morning with a famous close-up and zoom out from a glass offizzingaspirin beside her bed.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.They reported pondsfizzingwith bubbles, dead animals found near those ponds, sounds of explosions which they attributed to gas blowing out holes in the walls of a quarry.
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