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Meanings of lather in English

Catalan
intranquilitat
Spanish
malestar

Agitation resulting from active worry.

intranquilitat
Portuguese
espuma
Catalan
sabonera

The froth produced by soaps or detergents.

espuma
Synonyms
Examples for "suds"
Examples for "suds"
1
She shook her hands, which were growing red in the white suds.
L'Assommoir
2
She threw the suds from her hands and came to the door.
Thirty Years in the Itinerancy
3
In due time Harrigan drew near, the suds swishing under his brush.
Harrigan
4
Wilbur, chase the roof off a jug of suds for the Lieutenant.
The Sorrows of a Show Girl: A Story of the Great "White Way"
5
Burgers, fries and other greasy fare help soak up all the suds.
The Guardian
1
Flora, her hands buried deep in the soapsuds, looked at him round-eyed.
The Long Shadow
2
After standing fifteen or twenty minutes, add three gallons of common soapsuds.
Success with Small Fruits
3
There was still a thin sheath of gray soapsuds clinging to them.
The stand
4
He adjusted his stained clothes, brushed soapsuds from his lapels, glanced about.
Orb Sceptre Throne
5
The only ones I have ever been in smelt so much of soapsuds.
The Girl at Cobhurst
Portuguese
chicotear
Catalan
assotar

Beat severely with a whip or rod.

chicotear
Portuguese
ensaboar
Catalan
ensabonar

Rub soap all over, usually with the purpose of cleaning.

ensaboar
Usage of lather in English
1
The entire secret society would be in a lather to meet me.
Pandemonium
2
Six hours later Wilmot came in on a horse covered with lather.
The Penalty
3
Still I thought I could fulfil the rôle of lather-boy very effectively.
Sixteen Months in Four German Prisons: Wesel, Sennelager, Klinge...
4
Even when he smears soap lather over them, I don't feel anything.
Insurgent
5
He was a lather and had a steady job till sickness came.
Children of the Tenements
6
Her father with his face distorted by lather before his shaving mirror.
Star-Dust: A Story of an American Girl
7
He hurtled past, Scout so close her lather splattered the mica visor.
Karen Memory
8
One brush, too, brushes every chin, and one lather lathers them all.
White Jacket; Or, The World on a Man-of-War
9
Whatever you lather onto your skin will be absorbed by your skin.
The South African
10
White foam dripped from her lower lip, covering her chin in lather.
How to make love like a porn star
11
This discovery had the science community in a lather for years.
The Irish Times
12
Ser Wendel Manderly was all in a lather to know what was happening.
A clash of kings
13
Stop working yourselves to a lather out of your own imaginations.
To the blight: the eye of the world
14
Lichtenstein, one side of his face in lather, appeared at the bath-room door.
The Penalty
15
He prepared for the ordeal, making his own lather and opening the razor.
Sheila of Big Wreck Cove: A Story of Cape Cod
16
And the second team was fagged and caked with frozen lather.
Then I'll Come Back to You
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Translations for lather
Lather through the time
Lather across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Common