effervesce
verbUS /ˌɛf.əɹˈvɛs/
Etymology From Latin effervescere (“to boil up”). By surface analysis, ef- + Latin ferv- + -esce.
1
Of a liquid To emit small bubbles of dissolved gas; to froth or fizz.
- After some remonstrances, she takes up a champagne bottle, but is frightened by the sudden explosion of the cork, and drops it upon the floor. There the untasted liquor effervesces.1846, Nathaniel Hawthorne, “The New Adam and Eve”, in Mosses from an Old Manse:
2
Of a gas To escape from solution in a liquid in the form of bubbles.
3
Figuratively, Of a person To show high spirits.
- Derived terms
- effervescible, effervescingly, effervescive
- Related terms
- effervescence, effervescent