Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

foam up

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.78 in modern English

Syllables: foam up
IPA

13

Scrabble Score

6

Letters

1

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To become foamy, create a foam; to rise with a foamy surface or covered with something resembling foam

Intransitive verb

verb

To take place, arise, erupt, develop.

Intransitive verb

verb

To cause to become foamy; to cover with foam.

Transitive verb

Example Sentences

"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)."

Usage

Inflected Forms

foams up (present, singular) foaming up (participle, present) foamed up (participle, past) foamed up (past)

Synonyms

froth up

Questions

What does foam up mean?: To become foamy, create a foam; to rise with a foamy surface or covered with something resembling foam

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