0 past simple and past participle of lather
1 to produce a lather from soap, or to cover something or someone in lather:
She started to speak rather sympathetically, but she then lathered herself into a perfect fury and that sympathy melted in a quagmire of quibbles.
The brush is then transferred either to a separate bowl or to the shaver's face to be lathered.
The first challenge was a bathing game where each housemate has to use one large soap bar and be lathered in a large plastic tub.
The leaves can be eaten as spinach, and the seeds can be lathered in water and used as soap (hence the name soap-berry).