MEANING
Produce a continuous sharp hissing sound, often from heat or contact with a hot surface.
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Words that belong together
- oil sizzles
- rain sizzles
On the page
Rain sizzled on the hot metal roof.
Word forms
- Base
- sizzle
- Past tense
- sizzled
- Past participle
- sizzled
- Present participle
- sizzling
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- sizzle
- Present continuous
- am/is/are sizzling
- Present perfect
- have/has sizzled
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been sizzling
- Past
- sizzled
- Past continuous
- was/were sizzling
- Past perfect
- had sizzled
- Past perfect continuous
- had been sizzling
- Future
- will sizzle
- Future continuous
- will be sizzling
- Future perfect
- will have sizzled
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been sizzling
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Usage notes
Primary category: sensory / description. Forms: sizzle; sizzles; sizzled; sizzled; sizzling Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: description. Commonness: moderately common. Third-person singular: sizzles.
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