SIZZLING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sizzling mean? 

• SIZZLING (adjective)
  The adjective SIZZLING has 2 senses:

1. hot enough to burn with or as if with a hissing sound

2. characterized by intense emotion or interest or excitement

  Familiarity information: SIZZLING used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SIZZLING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Hot enough to burn with or as if with a hissing sound

Context example:

a sizzling spell of weather

Similar:

hot (used of physical heat; having a high or higher than desirable temperature or giving off heat or feeling or causing a sensation of heat or burning)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Characterized by intense emotion or interest or excitement

Synonyms:

red-hot; sizzling

Context example:

sizzling political issues

Similar:

hot (extended meanings; especially of psychological heat; marked by intensity or vehemence especially of passion or enthusiasm)

 Context examples 

They are the size of Neptune or smaller, with tight orbits that are closer to their stars than our own sizzling Mercury is to our sun.

(Helium-Shrouded Planets May Be Common in Our Galaxy, NASA)

The newly-discovered Kepler-90i - a sizzling hot, rocky planet that orbits its star once every 14.4 days - was found using machine learning from Google.

(Artificial Intelligence, NASA Data Used to Discover Eighth Planet Circling Distant Star, NASA)

But in the laundry the air was sizzling.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

The sizzling planet is so close to its star that it is on the cusp of being ripped apart by the star's gravity.

(Hubble Uncovers a ‘Heavy Metal’ Exoplanet Shaped Like a Football, NASA)

Our Milky Way galaxy is littered with the still-sizzling remains of exploded stars.

(Pulse of a Dead Star Powers Intense Gamma Rays, NASA)

The animal was not mere than fifty feet away, and instantly into the man's mind leaped the vision and the savor of a caribou steak sizzling and frying over a fire.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

Any possible visitors to the exoplanet, called Kepler-13Ab, would need to bottle up some of that sunscreen, because they won't find it on the sizzling hot, daytime side, which always faces its host star.

(Hubble Observes Exoplanet that Snows Sunscreen, NASA)

On every side, wherever the live coals had fallen, the snow was sizzling, and every little while a retiring wolf, with wild leap and snort and snarl, announced that one such live coal had been stepped upon.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Sometimes, in the steaming, sizzling heat, as he swung the heavy irons back and forth over the white garments, it came to him that it was a dream.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)