SPUME

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does spume mean? 

• SPUME (noun)
  The noun SPUME has 1 sense:

1. foam or froth on the sea

  Familiarity information: SPUME used as a noun is very rare.

• SPUME (verb)
  The verb SPUME has 1 sense:

1. make froth or foam and become bubbly

  Familiarity information: SPUME used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SPUME (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Foam or froth on the sea

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Hypernyms ("spume" is a kind of...):

foam; froth (a mass of small bubbles formed in or on a liquid)

Derivation:

spume (make froth or foam and become bubbly)

spumy (emitting or filled with bubbles as from carbonation or fermentation)

• SPUME (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Make froth or foam and become bubbly

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

froth; spume; suds

Context example:

The river foamed

Hypernyms (to "spume" is one way to...):

create; make (make or cause to be or to become)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Derivation:

spume (foam or froth on the sea)

 Context examples 

As it was, spray and spume came aboard in such quantities that I bailed without cessation.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

White-crested waves beat madly on the level sands and rushed up the shelving cliffs; others broke over the piers, and with their spume swept the lanthorns of the lighthouses which rise from the end of either pier of Whitby Harbour.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

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.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)