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adjective

Definition of sizzlingnext
as in blazing

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sizzling

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verb

present participle of sizzle
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
  1. blazing
  2. white-hot
  3. bubbling
  4. raging
  5. seething
  6. burning
  7. molten
  8. torrid
Adjective
  • His effort, willingness as a blocker and blazing speed inserted him into the rotation.
    Ben Standig, The Athletic, 8 Jan. 2025
  • Bring you hiking boots and plenty of water and remember, the park is best visited in spring, fall or winter – and not in the blazing heat of summer.
    Pam LeBlanc, Southern Living, 27 Dec. 2024
Definition of blazing
Adjective
  • Davis’ white-hot gala will take place on Feb. 1, the same day of the Special Merit Awards, which will pay tribute to Prince, Frankie Beverly, The Clash, Dr. Bobby Jones, Taj Mahal, Roxanne Shante and Frankie Valli.
    Mesfin Fekadu, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Jan. 2025
  • In 2018, astronomers observed that the black hole’s corona – a cloud of whirling, white-hot plasma – suddenly disappeared before reassembling months later.
    Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 14 Jan. 2025
Definition of white-hot
Verb
  • 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
  • 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
Definition of bubbling
Verb
  • Then the truck flipped over, sending the workers into the raging water.
    Travis Loller, Los Angeles Times, 26 Dec. 2024
  • Here is the list of fighters that gained immortality as a result of this raging inferno.
    Interesting Engineering, Interesting Engineering, 20 Dec. 2024
Definition of raging
Adjective
  • This helps explain why Gabbard elicits a seething hatred from people like Frum, Clinton, and Nichols.
    Matt Robison, Newsweek, 21 Nov. 2024
  • The posts linked a global network of agitators who have seized on the influx of migrants seeking political asylum or economic opportunity to build seething followings online.
    Steven Lee Myers, New York Times, 10 Aug. 2024
Definition of seething
Verb
  • 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
  • As some steelmakers are beginning to embrace cleaner technology, climate and clean air advocates say Nippon's plan would have slowed the transition to greener steel by extending the life of dirty, old coal-burning furnaces.
    Dan Perry, Newsweek, 3 Jan. 2025
Definition of burning
Adjective
  • Next is the liquid outer core, made of molten iron and nickel, which is about 1,300 miles thick and has temperatures between 8,000 and 10,000 degrees.
    Tommy Tuberville, Newsweek, 8 Jan. 2025
  • For example, the magma nearest the surface of the Yellowstone Caldera contains a lot of silica, which lends the molten rocks a sticky, viscous, and slow-moving quality.
    Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 3 Jan. 2025
Definition of molten
Adjective
  • And playing this torrid Knights squad will be no easy task.
    Shreyas Laddha, Kansas City Star, 5 Jan. 2025
  • The Argentina international has endured a torrid five months, but in truth his problems go back much further than that.
    Adam Digby, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2024
Definition of torrid
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