FOAMING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does foaming mean? 

• FOAMING (adjective)
  The adjective FOAMING has 2 senses:

1. emitting or filled with bubbles as from carbonation or fermentation

2. producing or covered with lathery sweat or saliva from exhaustion or disease

  Familiarity information: FOAMING used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FOAMING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Emitting or filled with bubbles as from carbonation or fermentation

Synonyms:

bubbling; bubbly; effervescing; foaming; foamy; frothy; spumy

Context example:

foamy (or frothy) beer

Similar:

effervescent ((of a liquid) giving off bubbles)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Producing or covered with lathery sweat or saliva from exhaustion or disease

Synonyms:

foaming; foamy; frothing

Context example:

the rabid animal's frothing mouth

Similar:

unhealthy (not in or exhibiting good health in body or mind)

 Context examples 

Small waves, with spiteful foaming crests, continually broke over me and into my mouth, sending me off into more strangling paroxysms.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

In addition, the exclusion of polysorbate 80 in this formulation precludes foaming during the preparation process, thus facilitating preparation and administration.

(Docetaxel Emulsion ANX-514, NCI Thesaurus)

Their rear ranks were already passing out of sight ere the new-comers were urging their panting, foaming horses up the slope which had been the scene of that long drawn and bloody fight.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It was horrible to see the fierce brutes with foaming mouths and glaring eyes, rushing and grasping, but forever missing their elusive enemies, while arrow after arrow buried itself in their hides.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

And Buck was truly a red-eyed devil, as he drew himself together for the spring, hair bristling, mouth foaming, a mad glitter in his blood-shot eyes.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

Perhaps it was this—perhaps it was the look of the island, with its grey, melancholy woods, and wild stone spires, and the surf that we could both see and hear foaming and thundering on the steep beach—at least, although the sun shone bright and hot, and the shore birds were fishing and crying all around us, and you would have thought anyone would have been glad to get to land after being so long at sea, my heart sank, as the saying is, into my boots; and from the first look onward, I hated the very thought of Treasure Island.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Ten minutes after the hour the hearse was still standing at the door of the house, and even as our foaming horse came to a halt the coffin, supported by three men, appeared on the threshold.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

In the difficulty of hearing anything but wind and waves, and in the crowd, and the unspeakable confusion, and my first breathless efforts to stand against the weather, I was so confused that I looked out to sea for the wreck, and saw nothing but the foaming heads of the great waves.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

When the boar perceived the tailor, it ran on him with foaming mouth and whetted tusks, and was about to throw him to the ground, but the hero fled and sprang into a chapel which was near and up to the window at once, and in one bound out again.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

It is—that he asks me to be his wife, and has no more of a husband's heart for me than that frowning giant of a rock, down which the stream is foaming in yonder gorge.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)