EFFERVESCE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does effervesce mean? 

• EFFERVESCE (verb)
  The verb EFFERVESCE has 1 sense:

1. become bubbly or frothy or foaming

  Familiarity information: EFFERVESCE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EFFERVESCE (verb)

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

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

effervesce; fizz; foam; form bubbles; froth; sparkle

Context example:

sparkling water

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)

 Context examples 

I suppose your love will effervesce in six months, or less.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Then and there we should have tried the thing out, for he was effervescing with fight, but fortunately I was rescued from an odious situation.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The mixture, which was at first of a reddish hue, began, in proportion as the crystals melted, to brighten in colour, to effervesce audibly, and to throw off small fumes of vapour.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)