Effervesce

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  • intransitive verb. To emit small bubbles of gas, as a carbonated or fermenting liquid.
  • intransitive verb. To escape from a liquid as bubbles; bubble up.
  • intransitive verb. To show high spirits or animation.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To be in a state of natural ebullition, like liquor when gently boiling; bubble and hiss, as fermenting liquors or any fluid when some part escapes in a gaseous form; work, as new wine.
  • Figuratively, to show signs of excitement; exhibit feelings which cannot be suppressed: as, to effervesce with joy.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • intransitive verb. To be in a state of natural ebullition; to bubble and hiss, as fermenting liquors, or any fluid, when some part escapes in a gaseous form.
  • intransitive verb. To exhibit, in lively natural expression, feelings that can not be repressed or concealed.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. to emit small bubbles of dissolved gas; to froth or fizz
  • verb. to escape from solution in a liquid in the form of bubbles
  • verb. to show high spirits
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. become bubbly or frothy or foaming
  • Word Usage
    "And yet, as every TV executive knows to his everlasting regret, it's not so simple as just sending out a junior casting suit for a little browsing and sluicing through a cattle call, to round up a herd of people who, when confronted by a lens, began to effervesce to an extraordinary extent."
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    bubble  
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    lather  seethe  
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