foaming

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a. A mass of bubbles of air or gas in a matrix of liquid film, especially an accumulation of fine, frothy bubbles formed in or on the surface of a liquid, as from agitation or fermentation.

b. A thick chemical froth, such as shaving cream or a substance used to fight fires.

a. Frothy saliva produced especially as a result of physical exertion or a pathological condition.

b. The frothy sweat of a horse or other equine animal.

3. The sea.

4. Any of various light, porous, semirigid or spongy materials used for thermal insulation or shock absorption, as in packaging.

v. foamed, foam·ing, foams

v.intr.

1. To produce or issue as foam; froth.

a. To produce foam from the mouth, as from exertion or a pathological condition.

b. To be extremely angry; rage: was foaming over the disastrous budget cuts.

3. To teem; seethe: a playground foaming with third graders.

v.tr.

1. To cause to produce foam.

2. To cause to become foam.

[Middle English fom, from Old English fm.]

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Adj.	1.	foaming - emitting or filled with bubbles as from carbonation or fermentation; "bubbling champagne"; "foamy (or frothy) beer" bubbling, bubbly, effervescing, frothy, spumy, foamy effervescent - (of a liquid) giving off bubbles
	2.	foaming - producing or covered with lathery sweat or saliva from exhaustion or disease; "the rabid animal's frothing mouth" foamy, frothing unhealthy - not in or exhibiting good health in body or mind; "unhealthy ulcers"

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Here, however, a foaming fool, with extended hands, sprang forward to him and stood in his way.

Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book For All And None by Nietzsche, Friedrich View in context

All eyes were strained after the little bark as it pulled for shore, rising and sinking with the huge rolling waves, until it entered, a mere speck, among the foaming breakers, and was soon lost to view.

Astoria or Anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains by Irving, Washington View in context

Around and over it whirled, this way and that, and a few moments later the chicken-coop dropped far away into the sea, where the big waves caught it and slid it up-hill to a foaming crest and then down-hill into a deep valley, as if it were nothing more than a plaything to keep them amused.

Ozma of Oz by Baum, L. Frank View in context

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