Die and Fizzle

Die

Die verb - To stop functioning.

Usage example: fortunately, when the engine died we were only two blocks from home

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Fizzle and die are semantically related In some cases you can use "Fizzle" instead a verb "Die".

Nearby Word: died

Fizzle verb - To make a sound like that of stretching out the speech sound \s\.

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Die and fizzle are semantically related in collapse topic. Sometimes you can use "Die" instead a verb "Fizzle".

Nearby Words: fizz, fizzled, fizzling

way	die way	fizzle way
fans	die fans	fizzle fans

One nice touch is that names change from place to place—a powerful spell from one end of the world will fizzle and die at the other.

Source: Functional Magic aka: Magic
You can become your own Walking Techbane in Deus Ex by enabling the "iamwarren" (Warren being the games development lead) cheat code - which makes literally anything computerized fizzle and die when you walk within five feet of it.

Source: Walking Techbane
Someone Has to Die: At the end of The Atrocity Archive, someone has to stay behind to blow up the nuke manually and cause a "fizzle".

Source: Literature / The Laundry Series