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Verb
effervesce (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.
- ✤ 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.1
- (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.
Etymology
From Latin effervescere (“to boil up”). By surface analysis, ef- + Latin ferv- + -esce.
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA: /ˌɛf.əɹˈvɛs/
- Audio (Southern England): 🔊
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Link to original Footnotes
1846, Nathaniel Hawthorne, “The New Adam and Eve”, in Mosses from an Old Manse: ↩
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