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Definition of "spume" [spume]

  • Foam or froth on a liquid, as on the sea. (noun)
  • To froth or foam. (verb-intransitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "spume" in a sentence
  • "On January 6th, 2010 at 7: 29 pm, New Chapters « spume wrote:"
  • "Never mind that most of his rapping was a spume of spittle and expletives – you expect that at a hip-hop show."
  • "The streams run dry on poisoned land, where stands the angel of the key, in hailfire strafing spume and sand as fish rot on a wormwood sea."