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# lather

«lather» in Mova's school dictionary: **the foam made when soap is mixed with water** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun; verb (lathers, lathered, lathering)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Lather is the foam made when soap is mixed with water. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lather/#m1)

2) To lather is to cover something with soap and rub it, or to wash and scrub with soap. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lather/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

in everyday life lather is the bubbly foam on hands or hair when you wash; in old tales people were lathered and scrubbed in a bath

### examples

- Wash your hands until you get a good lather. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lather/#x1)
- He lathered his face before shaving. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lather/#x2)
- The bath-men lathered and scrubbed them all. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lather/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «lather» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lather/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.