spume

see definition of spume

nounfroth

Synonyms for spume

noun froth

bubble

verb. foam, froth up, especially with sound

bubbled

verb. foam, froth up, especially with sound

bubbles

verb. foam, froth up, especially with sound

bubbles

noun. globule of air

foam

noun. bubbles formed from a liquid

Word Origin & History

late 14c., from Old French spume, from Latin spuma "foam" (cf. Italian spuma, Spanish espuma); cognate with Old English fam, Old High German veim "foam" (see foam (n.)).

Example Sentences for spume

There was a feather of spume to mark the plunge and nothing else.

So we all made it ashore, and our boat also, which now we hauled out of the spume.

Outside, the air was filled with the spume and shriek of bursting shells.

His horse was white with dust and spume, but his spurs were red.

A yellow foam, like spume of the sea, dropped from his lips.

Now and then she dipped and the spume flew high, drenching Polly.

The Latin term for litharge is spuma argenti, spume of silver.

Elliot and Holt left Kusiak in a spume of whirling, blinding snow.

They passed from her mind like the spume puffed from the wave's crest.

The animals responded nobly to our urging, though their nostrils were blood-red, and their quivering haunches flaked with spume.

spume

Synonyms for spume

More words related to spume

bubble

bubble

bubbled

bubbles

bubbles

foam