Meaning of foam up | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To become foamy, create a foam; to rise with a foamy surface or covered with something resembling foam
   intransitive
2. To take place, arise, erupt, develop.
   figuratively, intransitive
3. To cause to become foamy; to cover with foam.
   transitive

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Examples

“In a chastened mood, Helen returned to her own⟳ room and lit her spirit-lamp, in order⟳ to re-boil the coffee. She was watching the brown bubbles foam up in the saucepan, when she heard the front-door bell.”

“[…] valleys deep in a milk-white mist where a continual drip-drip allowed one to hear⟳, rather than see⟳, the enormous soft, and feathery leafage of the tree-ferns as it foamed up from the living fossils of the trunks.”

“When the first rain⟳ hits […] that big pipe carries a lot of water that blasts the algae and sediment, which then foams up.”

“A tide of Republican scandal foamed up last⟳ week and engulfed Germany's greatest post-War soldier, Hans von Seeckt, “The Man with the Iron⟳ Monocle.””

“[…] Traveler had shown up looking for some suppositories to cure his bronchitis, and out of the explanation he had got from Talita love⟳ had foamed up like⟳ shampoo in a showerbath.”

“As I routinely foamed up his grand lattes, he’d share⟳ details about his homicide cases (not to mention⟳ his rocky marriage, which was still bordering on divorce).”

“Face⟳ foamed up, I flicked on the shaver before lowering it to my face⟳, and allowed the blades to fizz and chug against my skin.”

“After working the rotating brush gently over my face⟳, she begins foaming up the facial’s star product, Cor soap, between her palms.”

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