effervesce
English
editEtymology
editFrom Latin effervescere (“to boil up”).
Pronunciation
editVerb
editeffervesce (third-person singular simple present effervesces, present participle effervescing, simple past and past participle effervesced)
- (intransitive, of a liquid) To emit small bubbles of dissolved gas; to froth or fizz.
- 1846, Nathaniel Hawthorne, “The New Adam and Eve”, in Mosses from an Old Manse:
- After some remonstrances, she takes up a champagne bottle, but is frightened by the sudden explosion of the cork, and drops it upon the floor. There the untasted liquor effervesces.
- (intransitive, of a gas) To escape from solution in a liquid in the form of bubbles.
- (intransitive, figurative, of a person) To show high spirits.
Related terms
editTranslations
editto emit small bubbles
Latin
editVerb
editeffervēsce
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