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verb Present participle of effervesce.
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adjective emitting or filled with bubbles as from carbonation or fermentation
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Examples
The plate is in front of you and you feel the cheese still going under effervescing sauce bubbles, the air molecules condensing helplessly against the root beer glass.
“The whip which lashed the Detroit Tigers into submission …will be cracked by those effervescing Dean brothers in an exhibition at Muehlebach Field tonight,” enthused the Star.54
“The whip which lashed the Detroit Tigers into submission …will be cracked by those effervescing Dean brothers in an exhibition at Muehlebach Field tonight,” enthused the Star.54
“The whip which lashed the Detroit Tigers into submission …will be cracked by those effervescing Dean brothers in an exhibition at Muehlebach Field tonight,” enthused the Star.54
“The whip which lashed the Detroit Tigers into submission …will be cracked by those effervescing Dean brothers in an exhibition at Muehlebach Field tonight,” enthused the Star.54
The morning after my birthday, I was effervescing over breakfast about the glories of the previous day, chiefly my impending ensemble, when my wife asked if I'd noticed how much clothing had been on my mind lately.
Washington itself will remain what it has been--not a Babylon that corrupts our pure-hearted right-wingers but the very seat of their Industry Conservatism, constantly seething and effervescing, with tens of thousands of individuals coming and going, each avidly piling up his own tidy pile but between them engaged in an awesome common project.
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