SIZZLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sizzle mean? 

• SIZZLE (noun)
  The noun SIZZLE has 1 sense:

1. a sizzling noise

  Familiarity information: SIZZLE used as a noun is very rare.

• SIZZLE (verb)
  The verb SIZZLE has 3 senses:

1. make a sound like frying fat

2. seethe with deep anger or resentment

3. burn or sear with a sizzling sound

  Familiarity information: SIZZLE used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SIZZLE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A sizzling noise

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Hypernyms ("sizzle" is a kind of...):

noise (sound of any kind (especially unintelligible or dissonant sound))

• SIZZLE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they sizzle    ... he / she / it sizzles   
Past simple: sizzled   
Past participle: sizzled   
-ing form: sizzling   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Make a sound like frying fat

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "sizzle" is one way to...):

make noise; noise; resound (emit a noise)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Sense 2

Meaning:

Seethe with deep anger or resentment

Classified under:

Verbs of feeling

Context example:

She was sizzling with anger

Hypernyms (to "sizzle" is one way to...):

boil; seethe (be in an agitated emotional state)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Sense 3

Meaning:

Burn or sear with a sizzling sound

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Context example:

The fat sizzled in the pan

Hypernyms (to "sizzle" is one way to...):

scorch; sear (make very hot and dry)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

 Context examples 

They are the size of Neptune or smaller, with tight orbits that are closer to their stars than our own sizzling Mercury is to our sun.

(Helium-Shrouded Planets May Be Common in Our Galaxy, NASA)

The newly-discovered Kepler-90i - a sizzling hot, rocky planet that orbits its star once every 14.4 days - was found using machine learning from Google.

(Artificial Intelligence, NASA Data Used to Discover Eighth Planet Circling Distant Star, NASA)

But in the laundry the air was sizzling.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

As it melted and dropped upon the stove it sizzled and rose about him in steam.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

The sizzling planet is so close to its star that it is on the cusp of being ripped apart by the star's gravity.

(Hubble Uncovers a ‘Heavy Metal’ Exoplanet Shaped Like a Football, NASA)

There was a sizzle and odour of burning flesh, and a sharp cry of pain.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Our Milky Way galaxy is littered with the still-sizzling remains of exploded stars.

(Pulse of a Dead Star Powers Intense Gamma Rays, NASA)

On every side, wherever the live coals had fallen, the snow was sizzling, and every little while a retiring wolf, with wild leap and snort and snarl, announced that one such live coal had been stepped upon.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Any possible visitors to the exoplanet, called Kepler-13Ab, would need to bottle up some of that sunscreen, because they won't find it on the sizzling hot, daytime side, which always faces its host star.

(Hubble Observes Exoplanet that Snows Sunscreen, NASA)

Sometimes, in the steaming, sizzling heat, as he swung the heavy irons back and forth over the white garments, it came to him that it was a dream.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)