foaming

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noun

A process that forms foam.

Less commonScrabble 13

Meanings

verb
  1. 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
nounfoaming (plural foamings)

plural foamings

  1. 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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