MEANING
1. To give off gas bubbles from a liquid, often producing fizzing or foaming.
2. To display lively, bubbling excitement or enthusiasm.
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Words that belong together
- a solution effervesces
- effervesce on contact
On the page
The solution effervesced when the powder reached it.
Tiny bubbles continued to effervesce along the damaged surface.
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Word forms
- Base
- effervesce
- Past tense
- effervesced
- Past participle
- effervesced
- Present participle
- effervescing
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- effervesce
- Present continuous
- am/is/are effervescing
- Present perfect
- have/has effervesced
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been effervescing
- Past
- effervesced
- Past continuous
- was/were effervescing
- Past perfect
- had effervesced
- Past perfect continuous
- had been effervescing
- Future
- will effervesce
- Future continuous
- will be effervescing
- Future perfect
- will have effervesced
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been effervescing
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Usage notes
Primary category: sensory / description. Forms: effervesce; effervesces; effervesced; effervesced; effervescing Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Third-person singular: effervesces.
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