to lather
7
3.1
- verb
- /ˈlæðər/
:
enjabonar
- She always lathers the soap in her hands before washing them.
- lather with soap
- lather your face
- lather your hands
I take so much and I lather it on my face.
- I take so much and I lather it on my face.
- Do you do this while you've cut the water off and you're lathering?
- Is this like for the hair lathering hands into hair facing heaviness?
Examples
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So what you want to gonna do is put it on your hand, lather, rinse, repeat.
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Cathy wondered as she lathered her shoulder-length auburn hair.
Fiction book (2000) -
I take so much and I lather it on my face.
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Turn around, let me lather you up.
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Literally just lather it on your entire face.
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Massage into a lather through the ends of the hair.
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I watched my father lather up and shave.
Fiction book (2000) -
Get a loofah or lather up your hand.
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And then after that I'll take the Dove bar soap and lather it up and just wash my face with it.
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With a sigh, he lathered up the soap and set to work.
Fiction book (1992)
Synonyms
23
1.7
To become covered with small bubbles, like milk when heated
12
1.0
To rub a bar or liquid on your skin to clean it
10
3.0
To make small bubbles form on the surface of a liquid
1
2.9
Make small round pockets of air inside or on a liquid
To wash something with soap and water to make bubbles
How Foamy
7
3.1
10
3.0
Surface Forms
Etymology
To lather means to make a mass of tiny bubbles by rubbing soap with water, just like shaving cream that quickly turns into foam, which is why we say a soap or shampoo 'lathers'.