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单词 spume
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spume
noun[U]
uk
/spjuːm/us
/spjuːm/
whitefoam(=bubbles)on thetopofwavesinwater:
（尤指海浪的）泡沫，浪花
Theovercastskymergedwith the spume of thewaves.乌云密布的天空与浪花融为一体。
More examples
  • Beyond thewhitespume of thebreakers, you can sometimesseewhales.
  • Spumewhippedup from thegreywaves.
  • Adeeplayerof spumehideverything but themastof theship.
  • Thewavessmashedinto therockycoastline,creatinginstantwaterfallsofwhitespume.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Waves
  • bore
  • breaker
  • choppy
  • comber
  • crest
  • dumper
  • heavy
  • lap
  • overfall
  • ripple
  • rough
  • roughness
  • standing wave
  • superwave
  • surf
  • tidal wave
  • tsunami
  • wake
  • wave
  • white horses
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spume
verb[I]
uk
/spjuːm/us
/spjuːm/
Ifwaterorwavesspumesomewhere, theymovethere whileproducingfoam(=bubbles):
起泡沫，起浪花
Theseawas spuming over theharbourwalls.海水拍打在港口的墙上，泛起层层泡沫。
More examples
  • Spray was spuming up from mysurfboard.
  • A 300footwaterfallspumed below.
  • During thegreatstormof 1756,wavesspumedrightacrosstheisland.
  • When thehatcheswereopened, morewaterwassentspuming under themill.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Movement of liquids
  • backsplash
  • be dripping withsomethingidiom
  • bleed
  • decant
  • drainage
  • drip
  • eddy
  • leakage
  • ripple
  • run a bathphrase
  • runsomeone/somethingover
  • runnel
  • seep
  • seepage
  • spit
  • swirl
  • topsomethingup
  • trickle
  • tub
  • washsomethingaway
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(Definition ofspumefrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofspume

spume
After the young man has had his last word expressing his spuming desires to leave language, comes neither silence nor void - but the text transformed into a visual object.
From theCambridge English Corpus
All this in such dramatic contrast to the scene outside, for the windows showed only white-capped seas, spray and blownspumeand wheeling, screaming gulls.
From theCambridge English Corpus
I leave this question of title and terminology and come to the march of events which is taking place under all this froth andspume.
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Hansard archive
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A northeaster picked upspumefrom high waves and deposited it as ice over the vessel.
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