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effervesces

effervesces is the third-person singular simple present indicative of effervesce.

Meaning of effervesce

Verb

effervesce (third-person singular simple present effervesces, present participle effervescing, simple past and past participle effervesced)

  1. (intransitive) 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.1846, Nathaniel Hawthorne, “The New Adam and Eve”, in Mosses from an Old Manse
  2. (intransitive) To escape from solution in a liquid in the form of bubbles.
  3. (figuratively, intransitive) To show high spirits.

Questions about effervesces

What is effervesces the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Effervesces is the third-person singular simple present indicative of effervesce.

Words near effervesces in the dictionary

  1. effervescency
  2. effervescent
  3. effervescent tablet
  4. effervescent tablets
  5. effervescently
  6. effervesces
  7. effervescible
  8. effervescing
  9. effervescingly
  10. effervescings
  11. effervescive

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