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spume
[spyoom]
verb (used with object)
to eject or discharge as or like foam or froth; spew (often followed byforth ).
verb (used without object)
to foam; froth.
noun
foam, froth, or scum.
spume
/ ː /
noun
foam or surf, esp on the sea; froth
verb
(intr) to foam or froth
Other Word Forms
- spumous adjective
- spumy adjective
- ˈܳdzܲ adjective
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of spume1
Example Sentences
She covers these turbid, hot-colored grounds with those deft black lines and smudges, plus airbrushed spumes of white or red, and also multicolored halftone dots that form a bridge between image and information.
For tens of minutes on a quarantined Thursday night, I spumed.
I watched the spumes of snow spiraling upward from the nearest peak.
When a juggernaut passed the other way, it slapped up spumes onto the streaming windscreen.
And with its evocations of cliffs, peaks, sails and spume, the building’s form relays a sympathetic message from the San Gabriel Mountains looming to the northeast to the surf at the city’s other end.
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