English > effervesce: 1 sense > verb 1, change| Meaning | Become bubbly or frothy or foaming. |
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| Pattern | Something ----s |
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| Synonyms | foam, froth, fizz, sparkle, form bubbles |
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| Narrower | lather | form a lather |
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| seethe | foam as if boiling |
| Broader | bubble | form, produce, or emit bubbles |
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| Spanish | espumajear, espumar |
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| Catalan | bromerejar, escumar, escumejar, produir escuma |
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| Adjectives | effervescent | (of a liquid) giving off bubbles |
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| effervescent | used of wines and waters |
| Nouns | effervescence | the property of giving off bubbles |
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| effervescence | the process of bubbling as gas escapes |