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EFFERVESCE
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I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they effervesce ... he / she / it effervesces
Past simple: effervesced
Past participle: effervesced
-ing form: effervescing
Sense 1
Meaning:
Become bubbly or frothy or foaming
Example:
sparkling water
Synonyms:
effervesce; fizz; foam; form bubbles; froth; sparkle
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "effervesce" is one way to...):
bubble (form, produce, or emit bubbles)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "effervesce"):
lather (form a lather)
seethe (foam as if boiling)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s
Derivation:
effervescence (the property of giving off bubbles)
effervescence (the process of bubbling as gas escapes)
effervescent ((of a liquid) giving off bubbles)
effervescent (used of wines and waters; charged naturally or artificially with carbon dioxide)
