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siz⋅zle

  [siz-uhl] verb, -zled, -zling, noun
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–verb (used without object)
1. to make a hissing sound, as in frying or burning.
2. Informal. to be very hot: It's sizzling out.
3. Informal. to be very angry; harbor deep resentment: I'm still sizzling over that insult.
–verb (used with object)
4. to fry or burn with or as if with a hissing sound: to sizzle steaks on the grill; The sun sizzles the pavement.
–noun
5. a sizzling sound.
Origin:
1595–1605; imit.; see -le

Related forms:
sizzler, noun
siz⋅zling⋅ly, adverb

Synonyms:
1. sputter, spatter, crackle, hiss.
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siz·zle   (sĭz'əl)   
intr.v.   siz·zled, siz·zling, siz·zles
  1. To make the hissing sound characteristic of frying fat.
  2. To seethe with anger or indignation.
  3. To be very hot: a summer day that sizzled.
n.  A hissing sound.

[Perhaps frequentative of Middle English sissen, to hiss, of imitative origin.]
siz'zling·ly adv.
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Sizzling

Siz"zling\, a. & n. from Sizzle.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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