Meanings
- gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of foam
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.
1892, Walter Besant, “Prologue: Who is Edmund Gray?”, in The Ivory Gate […], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC, page 16
plural foamings
- A process that forms foam.
After three foamings, a steady state is reached.
1946, Stanford University. Dept. of Chemistry, Contributions, volume 17, page 1599
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveemitting or filled with bubbles as from carbonation or fermentation
adjectiveproducing or covered with lathery sweat or saliva from exhaustion or disease
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
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