as in blazing
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1
as in hissing
to make a sound like that of stretching out the speech sound \s\
from my bed I could hear the bacon sizzling in the frying pan
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2
as in steaming
to be excited or emotionally stirred up with anger
she was really sizzling about being passed over for the promotion, and nearly quit
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sizzling
Adjective
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The biggest thing that gives Golden a chance to shine is his blazing speed.—
Rob Reischel,
Forbes.com,
25 Apr. 2025 -
The physical evidence strongly suggested that rather than hiking across a blazing desert after enduring weeks of torment, Aimee had gotten out of a car and walked a short distance to be discovered.—
Carolyn Kellogg,
Los Angeles Times,
24 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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While her peers blew in white-hot, cooled to red-hot, then fizzled, flatlined, and peeled off into God knows where, Nicole Kidman just kept accelerating forward.—
Danielle Pergament,
Allure,
22 May 2025
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My white-hot reaction was set off by that one word.—
Dawn Staley,
New York Times,
20 May 2025
Verb
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There was understandable tension in the quarter-final against Bayern Munich, but something was bubbling from minute one against Porto.—
Art de Roché,
The Athletic,
29 Dec. 2024
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One perk is that the bubbling stream provides the ideal ecosystem where hemlock and rhododendron thrive along the banks.—
Jennifer Prince,
Southern Living,
29 Dec. 2024
Verb
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Then the truck flipped over, sending the workers into the raging water.—
Travis Loller,
Los Angeles Times,
26 Dec. 2024
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Here is the list of fighters that gained immortality as a result of this raging inferno.—
Interesting Engineering,
Interesting Engineering,
20 Dec. 2024
Adjective
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Kennedy Center director Richard Grenell has now delivered a seething response to the performers’ plan.—
Jack Dunn,
Variety,
8 May 2025
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Among the productions strengths is Jake Gyllenhaal’s seething Iago, one of Shakespeare’s greatest villains.—
David Rooney,
The Hollywood Reporter,
3 Sep. 2019
Verb
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The company built a retail and residential complex around the county’s Coconut Grove Metrorail station, and Martin also is pitching an incinerator site in western Miami-Dade as an alternative to the Levine Cava plan to rebuild the trash-burning facility in Doral.—
Douglas Hanks,
Miami Herald,
4 Jan. 2025
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Most feature a king-size bed, wood-burning stove, plenty of knotty wood furniture, and fresh white linens.—
Maggie Fuller,
AFAR Media,
3 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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This complex is highly mobile in the molten sections of the mantle.—
David Bressan,
Forbes.com,
23 May 2025
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For instance, a 2022 analysis suggested that in the first billion years, when the Moon was covered in molten rock, giant rocks formed as the magma cooled and solidified.—
Jennifer Ouellette,
ArsTechnica,
23 May 2025
Adjective
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Ryan Daniels, the conference player of the year, continued his torrid season for the Huskies with a two-RBI double and a solo home run.—
Dom Amore,
Hartford Courant,
24 May 2025
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Pacers head coach Rick Carlisle subbed out Nesmith for just under three minutes before the torrid stretch, allowing the sharpshooter to return with fresh legs in the comeback attempt.—
Fiifi Frimpong,
New York Daily News,
22 May 2025
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“Sizzling.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sizzling. Accessed 3 Jun. 2025.
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