Coffee is among the most consumed beverages worldwide. According to Statista, an average person consumes roughly 42.6 liters of coffee per year.
FIZZLED
Verb
fizzled
simple past tense and past participle of fizzle
Source: Wiktionary
FIZZLE
Fiz"zle, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Fizzled; p. pr. & vb. n. Fizzling.] Etym: [See Fizz.]
1. To make a hissing sound. It is the easfizzling. B. Jonson.
2. To make a ridiculous failure in an undertaking. [Colloq. or Low] To fizzle out, to burn with a hissing noise and then go out, like wet gunpowder; hence, to fail completely and ridicuously; to prove a failure. [Colloq.]
Fiz"zle, n.
Definition: A failure or abortive effort. [Colloq.]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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