spume

American  

[spyoom] / spyum /

verb (used with object)

spumed, spuming

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

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verb (used without object)

spumed, spuming

1. to foam; froth.

noun

1. foam, froth, or scum.

spume British  

/ spjuːm /

noun

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

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verb

1. (intr) to foam or froth

Other Word Forms

• spumous adjective
• spumy adjective

Etymology

Origin of spume

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

Example Sentences

The style Matthiessen conjures is almost visual, with fragments of scene description and lines of unattributed dialogue arranged on the page like solitary brushstrokes or like breakers of spume on the open sea.

From The Wall Street Journal

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.

From New York Times

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

From New York Times

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

From New York Times

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

From Literature