Definitions for spume

spume spume

Spelling: [spyoom]
IPA: /spyum/

Spume is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 57 anagrams from letters in spume (empsu).

Definitions for spume

noun

  1. foam, froth, or scum.

verb (used with object)

  1. to eject or discharge as or like foam or froth; spew (often followed by forth).

verb (used without object)

  1. to foam; froth.

Origin of spume

1300-50; Middle English Latin spūma foam, froth; akin to foam

Examples for spume

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Word Value for spume
Scrable

9

Words with friends

12

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