Difference between Taper Off and Fizzle

TAPER OFF vs FIZZLE: NOUN

A failure.
Same as fizz, 2.
A fizzling or fizzing condition; hence, a state of restless agitation; a stew; worry: as, he is in a fizzle about his luggage.
A breaking wind.
A failure or an abortive effort; in particular, in school and college slang, a failure in a recitation or an examination.
A failure or abortive effort; a fiasco.
A spluttering or hissing sound.
A complete failure
A fricative sound (especially as an expression of disapproval)

To sputter or hiss.
To decay or die off to nothing; to burn out; to end less successfully than previously hoped.
End weakly

To make a hissing or sputtering sound.
To fail or end weakly, especially after a hopeful beginning.
To fail completely and ridiculously; to prove a failure.
To make a ridiculous failure in an undertaking, especially after a good start; to achieve nothing.
To make a hissing sound.

To make a hissing sound; hiss or sputter, as a liquid or gas forced out of a narrow aperture, or a liquid discharging gas, or a wet combustible, as wood or gunpowder, burning: usually with special reference to the weakness and sudden diminution or cessation of such sound.
Hence To stop abruptly after a more or less brilliant start; come to a sudden and lame conclusion; fail ignominiously; specifically, in school and college slang, to fail in a recitation or an examination: often with out: as, the undertaking promised well, but it soon fizzled out; nearly the whole class fizzled in calculus.
To break wind.
In school and college slang, to examine (a student) with the result of failure on his part: as, the professor fizzled nearly the whole class.

Shoring up, Weighed down, Sperm count, Short covering, Artificial skin, Abortion pill, Snuff out, Eke out, Drying up, Make headway, Cold spell, South island, Fizzle out, Peter out, Fizzle

Dissipate, Wane, Ignite, Vanish, Fade, Erupt, Explode, Evaporate, Implode, Sputter, Falter, Fail, Peter out, Fizzle out, Taper off

Propping up, Fatten up, Shoring up, Weighed down, Sperm count, Short covering, Artificial skin, Abortion pill, Snuff out, Eke out, Drying up, Make headway, Cold spell, Peter out, Fizzle out

Disappear, Disintegrate, Dissipate, Ignite, Vanish, Fade, Erupt, Explode, Evaporate, Implode, Sputter, Falter, Peter out, Fizzle out, Taper off

All our training has finished as we taper off.
The doctor should have gynaecological that you taper off.
Help patients taper off a PPI if needed.
He would like to taper off this regimen.
Overlap for migration, fold does not taper off.
Ativan to taper off of and another antidepressant.
Long bones develop slowly and eventually taper off.
This is not the place to taper off!
After that, "It doesn't taper off, it drops off," to about 8 percent in November.
When coming off blood pressure meds, you need to taper off them slowly.