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effervesce

verb as in fizz

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As he struggled to figure out how to get help, Schab decided to get rid of the pills — and as soon as he dumped them in the toilet, they “started to effervesce like an Alka-Seltzer.”

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Fernandez is a true opera singer, from Philadelphia, who effervesces with wonder and benign hauteur.

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DiDonato’s vibrato, which oscillates so quickly it seems to effervesce, is built for highly ornamented Baroque melodies.

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The waters effervesced like the 1920s themselves, but the solemn weight of the Depression evidently closed its doors.

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Ms. Diefenbach, who was already equipped with a pilot’s license, was sent to the effervescing volcano with a handful of keen colleagues and a small fleet of flying robots.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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