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How to pronounce lather in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms flog, lash, slash, strap, trounce, welt, whip
Type of work over, beat, beat up
Has types leather, scourge, switch, birch, cat, cowhide, flagellate, horsewhip
Type Words
Synonyms fret, stew, sweat, swither
Type of agitation
Type Words
Synonyms soapsuds, suds
Type of foam, froth
Has types shaving soap, shaving cream
Derivation lathery
Type Words
Synonyms soap
Type of clean, cleanse
Type Words
Type of working man, workman, workingman, working person
Type Words
Type of froth


this unfit horse lathers easily.
Type Words
Type of effervesce, fizz, froth, sparkle, form bubbles, foam


The shaving cream lathered.
Type Words
Type of froth, foam

Examples of lather

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So they refuse to address the things that have got the whole region in a lather.
From the post-gazette.com
Odds are it will be hot and muggy, so pack a cooler and lather up in bug spray.
From the newsobserver.com
With each haircut, customers receive a warm lather shave around the ears and neck.
From the tennessean.com
Then I lather up with a creamy gel and net loofah for a good scrub in the tub.
From the kentucky.com
The lather on the loofah was adequate to make me feel refreshingly clean, too.
From the kansas.com
I use an old-school safety razor, and lather up with a brush and shaving soap.
From the forbes.com
The circus-school hunk got the crowds into a lather with his 2012 performance.
From the metro.co.uk
The annual invasion is usually guaranteed to work the populace into a lather.
From the philly.com
This uncertainty about the path of policy has had the markets in a bit of a lather.
From the economist.com
More examples
  • Flog: beat severely with a whip or rod; "The teacher often flogged the students"; "The children were severely trounced"
  • Soapsuds: the froth produced by soaps or detergents
  • Form a lather; "The shaving cream lathered"
  • Fret: agitation resulting from active worry; "don't get in a stew"; "he's in a sweat about exams"
  • A workman who puts up laths
  • Exude sweat or lather; "this unfit horse lathers easily"
  • Soap: rub soap all over, usually with the purpose of cleaning
  • The foam resulting from excessive sweating (as on a horse)
  • ''Lu00E4ther'' (/lu025Bu00F0u025Cu02D0r/, or "Leather"), is the sixty-fifth official album by Frank Zappa, released posthumously as a triple album on Rykodisc in 1996.