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foaming en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. A process that forms foam.
    • After three foamings, a steady state is reached. 1946, Stanford University. Dept. of Chemistry, Contributions, volume 17, page 1599:

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Deriveds

unfoaming · foamingly · foaming agent · antifoaming · nonfoaming

foaming en · VERB

Meanings

  1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present) present participle and gerund of foam
    form of foam
    • Athelstan Arundel walked home all the way, foaming and raging. No omnibus, cab, or conveyance ever built could contain a young man in such a rage. His mother lived at Pembridge Square, which is four good measured miles from Lincoln's Inn. 1892, Walter Besant, “Prologue: Who is Edmund Gray?”, in The Ivory Gate […], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC, page 16: