I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
soap lathers (= it produces bubbles when made wet )
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Soap will not lather in hard water.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He arrived out of breath and in a lather .
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Lorton rinsed the lather from his skin and frowned at his clean-shaven face.
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Massage shampoo well into the roots where grease accumulates and attracts dirt, and let the lather work it own way outwards.
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That doesn't mean we have to go around in a great lather of gratitude all the time.
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The drying lather got up his nose, and he sneezed.
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The till jangled like a fire alarm, and Croughton the pot-bellied potman was already in a lather .
II. verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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I turn the water off while I'm lathering up in the shower.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He lathered his face, took out a clean blade, and started scraping off his beard.
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I rinsed the sponge as well as I could, lathered it, squeezed much black water out of it.
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Last time we tried this, the rain stopped when I was fully lathered.
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Scurrying aft, I had a fast shave, using the pink slime from the soap-dispenser to lather my face.
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So I kept my mouth shut even as her hands lathered me in the colour of dirt.
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The small, fat official was soon lathered in sweat.
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Where was all that charm he had lathered with sickening profuseness on Simone?
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Would he mind it if they lathered up his chest?