spume
verb (used with object)
to eject or discharge as or like foam or froth; spew (often followed byforth ).
was spuming
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past progressiveof spume.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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Twice in succession has it befallen me to be privately busy in a backwater when the main stream was spuming and ramping with the great bore of a general election.
From Without Prejudice by Israel Zangwill
He sprang up it to a small door, through the chinks of which came a glow of light, and smoke was spuming out.
From Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists by Washington Irving
