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spume

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Scrabble points
9
Words With Friends
12
Letters
5
Pronunciation
/spjuːm/

Definition of spume

2 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (countable, uncountable)Foam or froth of liquid, particularly that of seawater.
    “Materials dark and crude, / Of spiritous and fiery spume.”
    “No sluggish tide congenial to the glooms; / This, as it frothed by, might have been a bath / For the fiend's glowing hoof - to see the wrath / Of its black eddy bespate with flakes and spumes.”
    “The desert storm was riding in its strength; the travellers lay beneath the mastery of the fell simoom.[…]Roaring, leaping, pouncing, the tempest raged about the wanderers, drowning and blotting out their forms with sandy spume.”
    “Their breath froze in the air as it left their mouths, spouting forth in spumes of vapour that settled upon the hair of their bodies and formed into crystals of frost.”
    “The village itself is built on a ridge above the harbour, rows of sturdy cottages over which spume is hurled by easterly gales.”
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noun

  1. (countable, uncountable)Foam or froth of liquid, particularly that of seawater.
    “Materials dark and crude, / Of spiritous and fiery spume.”
    “No sluggish tide congenial to the glooms; / This, as it frothed by, might have been a bath / For the fiend's glowing hoof - to see the wrath / Of its black eddy bespate with flakes and spumes.”
    “The desert storm was riding in its strength; the travellers lay beneath the mastery of the fell simoom.[…]Roaring, leaping, pouncing, the tempest raged about the wanderers, drowning and blotting out their forms with sandy spume.”
    “Their breath froze in the air as it left their mouths, spouting forth in spumes of vapour that settled upon the hair of their bodies and formed into crystals of frost.”
    “The village itself is built on a ridge above the harbour, rows of sturdy cottages over which spume is hurled by easterly gales.”

verb

  1. To froth.

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Etymology

From Middle English spume, from Old French espume, from Latin spūma.

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