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sizzling
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective sizzling has 2 senses
- sizzling(s = adj.all) Array - hot enough to burn with or as if with a hissing sound; "a sizzling steak"; "a sizzling spell of weather"
- sizzling(s = adj.all) red-hot - characterized by intense emotion or interest or excitement; "a red-hot speech"; "sizzling political issues"
THESAURUS
sizzling
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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