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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

sizzling
    adj 1: hot enough to burn with or as if with a hissing sound; "a
           sizzling steak"; "a sizzling spell of weather"
    2: characterized by intense emotion or interest or excitement;
       "a red-hot speech"; "sizzling political issues" [syn: red-
       hot, sizzling]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Sizzle \Siz"zle\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Sizzled; p. pr. & vb. n.
   Sizzling.] [See Siss.]
   To make a hissing sound; to fry, or to dry and shrivel up,
   with a hissing sound. [Prov. Eng. & Colloq. U. S.] --Forby.
   [1913 Webster]

3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Sizzling \Siz"zling\,
   a. & n. from Sizzle.
   [1913 Webster]

Thesaurus Results for Sizzling:

1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

assibilation, baking, boiling, broiling, burning, buzz, clack, click, crack, cracking, crackle, crackling, crepitation, decrepitation, effervescence, effervescent, effervescing, fiery, fizz, fizzle, fizzling, frication, frictional rustling, het up, hiss, hissing, hot, hush, hushing, lisp, red-hot, rhonchus, scalding, scorching, seething, shush, shushing, sibilance, sibilant, sibilation, siffle, sigmatism, simmering, siss, sissing, sizz, sizzle, smoldering, snap, snapping, sneeze, sneezing, sniff, sniffing, sniffle, sniffling, snore, snoring, snort, snuff, snuffle, snuffling, spit, spitting, splutter, sputter, squash, squelch, squish, sternutation, stertor, swish, torrid, wheeze, wheezing, wheezy, whish, whistle, whistling, white noise, white-hot, whiz, whoosh, zip

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