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effervesce

[ef-er-ves] / ˌɛf ərˈvɛs /
VERB
fizz
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DiDonato’s vibrato, which oscillates so quickly it seems to effervesce, is built for highly ornamented Baroque melodies.

From New York Times Apr. 24, 2022

Wodehouse, whose accounts of upper-class twits effervesce with smile-inducing similes: “She came leaping towards me, like Lady Macbeth coming to get first-hand news from the guest-room.”

From Washington Post Mar. 31, 2021

But watching Alexandra Socha effervesce her way through the madcap “Look What Happened to Mabel” number in the Encores! revue “Hey, Look Me Over!” put me firmly in the when’s-it-gonna-happen camp.

From New York Times Dec. 21, 2018

We’re excited for two more, by the end of which Slate will likely be published on thin wafers that effervesce into provocative arguments on your tongue.

From Slate Jun. 24, 2016

“Ah!” he sighed to himself, as his blood seemed to effervesce, and a thrill ran through his nerves, “who could be a coward at a time like this?”

From The Young Castellan A Tale of the English Civil War by George Manville Fenn

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

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 28, 2021

Sentiments like that had effervesced online for weeks.

From Washington Post Jul. 25, 2016

Charles Simonyi was the chief architect of Microsoft. $3,000,000,000,000 Wiser By Larry Keeley After $3 trillion effervesced away on the Nasdaq, it is good to ask what we now know.

From Forbes May 27, 2011

Some bemoaned the “pompous VCs,” “sycophantic politicians,” the Silicon Valley tourists, the startups that attracted eyeballs and wads of cash sans business models and, well, the $3 trillion that effervesced on the Nasdaq.

From Forbes May 27, 2011

It popped up at the most inconvenient times, effervesced in all my rhymes.

From "Bronx Masquerade" by Nikki Grimes

For decades, when not effervescing over royal weddings and births, the tabloids have castigated the royals as lazy, frumpy, dissipated or self-indulgent.

From New York Times May 1, 2018

Solid calcite reacts with hydrochloric acid by effervescing or fizzing.

From Textbooks Jan. 1, 2017

But I suppose that now, were he with us, he might use the expression to refer to the little bubbles that are effervescing everywhere.

From Forbes Sep. 8, 2014

Or should we channel its effervescing language ability in other directions?

From Salon Sep. 12, 2012

Brisk, brisk, adj. full of life and spirit: active: sharp: effervescing, as liquors.—v.t. to enliven, freshen.—v.i. to cheer up.—adjs.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various




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