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FROTHING
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Dictionary entry overview: What does frothing mean?
• FROTHING (adjective)
The adjective FROTHING has 1 sense:
1. producing or covered with lathery sweat or saliva from exhaustion or disease
Familiarity information: FROTHING used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Producing or covered with lathery sweat or saliva from exhaustion or disease
Synonyms:
Context example:
the rabid animal's frothing mouth
Similar:
unhealthy (not in or exhibiting good health in body or mind)
Context examples
Straight away he raced, with Dolly, panting and frothing, one leap behind; nor could she gain on him, so great was his terror, nor could he leave her, so great was her madness.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
The symptoms of AES include convulsion, unconsciousness, excessive sweating, and frothing at the mouth.
(Lychee deaths linked to pesticides, not the fruit, SciDev.Net)
When he flung himself against the bars, quivering and frothing, they laughed at him and taunted him.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
Pike, the malingerer, leaped upon the crippled animal, breaking its neck with a quick flash of teeth and a jerk, Buck got a frothing adversary by the throat, and was sprayed with blood when his teeth sank through the jugular.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
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