foaming

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Verb

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foaming

  1. present participle and gerund of foam
    • 1892, Walter Besant, “Prologue: Who is Edmund Gray?”, in The Ivory Gate [], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, [], →OCLC, page 16:
      Athelstan Arundel walked home all the way, foaming and raging. No omnibus, cab, or conveyance ever built could contain a young man in such a rage. His mother lived at Pembridge Square, which is four good measured miles from Lincoln's Inn.

Noun

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foaming (plural foamings)

  1. A process that forms foam.
    • 1946, Stanford University. Dept. of Chemistry, Contributions, volume 17, page 1599:
      After three foamings, a steady state is reached.

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