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spume [spjuːm] n foam or surf, esp on the sea; froth vb
(intr) to foam or froth [from Old French espume, from Latin spūma; related to spuere to spew] spumous , spumy adj ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
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A few more yards, and my brains had floated with the spume. Chattering young things about me, with nothing but foam and spume in their heads, on their tongues, would drive me mad. A bluff cape to the north and a long spit to the south marked the mouth of the noble river, with a low-lying island of silted sand in the centre, all shrouded and curtained by the spume of the breakers. |
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