spume

[spyoom]

verb (used with object)

spumed, spuming 

1. to eject or discharge as or like foam or froth; spew (often followed byforth ).

verb (used without object)

spumed, spuming 

1. to foam; froth.

noun

1. foam, froth, or scum.

spume

/ spjuːm /

noun

1. foam or surf, esp on the sea; froth

verb

1. (intr) to foam or froth

Other Word Forms

• spumous adjective
• spumy adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of spume¹

1300–50; Middle English < Latin spūma foam, froth; akin to foam

Word History and Origins

Origin of spume¹

C14: from Old French espume, from Latin spūma; related to spuere to _spew

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.

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For tens of minutes on a quarantined Thursday night, I spumed.

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I watched the spumes of snow spiraling upward from the nearest peak.

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When a juggernaut passed the other way, it slapped up spumes onto the streaming windscreen.

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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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