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to spume

to spume

9.1
To form foam on the top of a liquid
  • verb
  • /spjuːm/
  • Literature
translation icon : espumar
  • But Sherazade had spumed his love, saying half in jest and half in eamnest, "Return to me, O Kamar, when you are Caliph of Bagdad and I will listen to you."

Examples

  • Hooves pound and spume dust, the horse heaves, and foam flings into sun shafting among hackberry limbs...

    Fiction book (1992)

  • "Killed my half-brother over a yellow-haired gal named Winona," he said and spat to the side, causing dust to spume.

    Fiction book (1998)

  • And I put my hand over her mouth while her evil life spumed away.

    Full Circle (1978)

  • A spuming column of smoke nine miles into the sky, blinding light stronger than the sun.

    The Atomic Cafe (1982)

  • On the big island, two memorable volcanoes still spumed.

    Fiction book (1990)

  • Soon, hungrily, I savage the raw heart while blood spumes across my cheek.

    Fiction book (1993)

  • Earthquakes would roll and volcanoes would spume as great seams opened in the crust.

    Fiction book (1990)

  • No longer did his colleagues bellow and spume at one another over adding women's studies to the curriculum (and women to the faculty), or while staunchly defending the verities of Plato, Shakespeare, and Keats.

    Fiction book (2001)

  • The waves crashed against the rocks, causing them to spume with a white frothy spray.

  • As the river quickened, it began to spume with bubbles and foam on its surface.

Synonyms

to froth
vsto spume
10 3.0

To make small bubbles form on the surface of a liquid

is broader and does not focus on tiny bubbles
to fizz
vsto spume
3 3.0

To make bubbles and a soft hissing sound in a liquid

is the same bubbling without the gas sound emphasis
to suds
vsto spume
5.3

To form bubbles and foam in a liquid

is more general and does not stress simultaneous action

Antonyms

to settle
540 2.8

To become calm and still after movement or excitement

How Frothy

to foam
23 1.7
to spume
  • Literature
9.1
to bubble
32 1.0
to fizz
3 3.0

Surface Forms

spume infinitive
spumed past
spumed past participle
spuming present participle
spumes third person singular

Etymology

Spume comes from the Latin spuma, meaning 'foam', so to spume is for a liquid to make foam or bubbles, just like champagne overflowing or waves foaming at the shore.