Meaning

5 senses
  1. (transitive)To create froth in (a liquid).

    I like to froth my coffee for ten seconds exactly.

    aufschäumen

    пенитьpenitʹ, взбиватьvzbivatʹ

  2. (intransitive)(of a liquid) To bubble.

    schäumen

  3. (transitive)To spit, vent, or eject, as froth.

  4. (intransitive)(literally) To spew saliva as froth; (figuratively) to rage, vent one's anger.

  5. (transitive)To cover with froth.

    A horse froths his chain.

    make froth or foam and become bubbly

Examples

3 sentences
  1. Beat the whites of 3 eggs to a stiff froth.

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  2. A drop, falling into water, makes a bubble; many bubbles make froth.

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  3. Ziri skimmed the froth off.

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Translations

7 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
To create froth:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
To create froth:
To bubble:

Origin

From Middle English froth, frooth, froþ, likely a borrowing from Old Norse froða, from Pro

From Middle English froth, frooth, froþ, likely a borrowing from Old Norse froða, from Proto-Germanic *fruþǭ; Old English āfrēoþan (“to foam, froth”) is from same Germanic root. Verb attested from late 14th century. Compare Swedish fradga.

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Forms

froths, frothing, frothed, frothed
Base formfroth · to froth
3rd person singularfroths
Present participlefrothing
Past simplefrothed
Past participlefrothed

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyfroth
he, she, itfroths

Past simpleLesson

all personsfrothed

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave frothed
he, she, ithas frothed

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill froth

Synonyms

7 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

2 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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