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froth up

froth up verb: to become frothy; to rise with a frothy surface or covered with something resembling froth.

Verb

froth up (third-person singular simple present froths up, present participle frothing up, simple past and past participle frothed up)

  1. (intransitive) To become frothy; to rise with a frothy surface or covered with something resembling froth.
    • The Spirit mourn'd "Adieu!"—dissolv’d, and left / The atom darkness in a slow turmoil; / As when of healthful midnight sleep bereft, / Thinking on rugged hours and fruitless toil, / We put our eyes into a pillowy cleft, / And see the spangly gloom froth up and boil: / It made sad Isabella’s eyelids...1820, John Keats, “Isabella; or, The Pot of Basil. A Story from Boccaccio.”, in Lamia, Isabella, the Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems, London: […] [Thomas Davison] for Taylor and Hessey, […], →OCLC...
    • ‘Then fetch me some,’ said the Whale, and he made the sea froth up with his tail.1902, Rudyard Kipling, “How the Whale Got His Throat”, in Just So Stories
    Synonyms:
    foam up

froth up meaning in Sanskrit

froth up in Sanskrit

to froth up; to foam
यस् yas

Synonyms of froth up

Forms of froth up

third-person singular presentfroths up
present participlefrothing up
past participlefrothed up
pastfrothed up

Questions about froth up

What does froth up mean?
Froth up means to become frothy; to rise with a frothy surface or covered with something resembling froth.
What is froth up in Sanskrit?
Froth up in Sanskrit is यस् (yas). See Froth up meaning in Sanskrit.
What part of speech is froth up?
Froth up is a verb.
What is the past tense of froth up?
The past tense of froth up is frothed up.

Words near froth up in the dictionary

  1. froth at the gash
  2. froth at the mouth
  3. froth flotation
  4. froth pack
  5. froth packs
  6. froth up
  7. froth-flies
  8. froth-fly
  9. froth-hopper
  10. frothed
  11. frothed at the gash

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Adapted from Wiktionary: froth up (page history and authors); यस् (Sanskrit) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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