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frothed up

frothed up is the simple past and past participle of froth up.

Meaning of froth up

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...
    Synonyms:
    foam up

Questions about frothed up

What is frothed up the simple past and past participle of?
Frothed up is the simple past and past participle of froth up.

Words near frothed up in the dictionary

  1. froth-fly
  2. froth-hopper
  3. frothed
  4. frothed at the gash
  5. frothed at the mouth
  6. frothed up
  7. frother
  8. frotheries
  9. frothers
  10. frothery
  11. frotheth

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