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Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To emit small bubbles of gas, as a carbonated or fermenting liquid.
  2. v. To escape from a liquid as bubbles; bubble up.
  3. v. To show high spirits or animation.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. 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.
  2. Figuratively, to show signs of excitement; exhibit feelings which cannot be suppressed: as, to effervesce with joy.

Wiktionary

  1. v. intransitive, of a liquid to emit small bubbles of dissolved gas; to froth or fizz
  2. v. intransitive, of a gas to escape from solution in a liquid in the form of bubbles
  3. v. intransitive, of a person to show high spirits

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. 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.
  2. v. To exhibit, in lively natural expression, feelings that can not be repressed or concealed.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. become bubbly or frothy or foaming

Etymologies

  1. Latin effervēscere : ex-, up, out; see ex- + fervēscere, to start boiling, inchoative of fervēre, to boil; see bhreu- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  • reesetee I agree! Sep 19, 2007

  • serenete so much more interesting than the adjectival form :P Sep 19, 2007

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