effervesce

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Etymology[edit]

From Latin effervescere (to boil up).

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

  1. (intransitive, of a liquid) To emit small bubbles of dissolved gas; to froth or fizz.
    • 1846, Nathaniel Hawthorne, “The New Adam and Eve”, in Mosses from an Old Manse:
      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.
  2. (intransitive, of a gas) To escape from solution in a liquid in the form of bubbles.
  3. (intransitive, figurative, of a person) To show high spirits.

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effervēsce

  1. second-person singular present active imperative of effervēscō