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verb

Foam v. t. To cause to foam; as, to foam the goblet; also (with out), to throw out with rage or violence, as foam. "Foaming out their own shame."

Foam v. i. (past & past part. foamed; pres. part. foaming)

To gather foam; to froth; as, the billows foam. "He foameth, and gnasheth with his teeth."

To form foam, or become filled with foam; said of a steam boiler when the water is unduly agitated and frothy, as because of chemical action.

adjective

foaming adj. Giving off bubbles and developing a head of foam; as, a foaming glass of beer.

Synonyms: bubbling, frothing.

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Etymology of 'Foaming'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Foaming" Quotes from Famous Books

... boats carried out ice anchors and made them fast to the foot of the berg. There the ship rode, sheltered from the gale, in smooth water, while the wind howled and roared, and the sea, hissing and foaming, dashed with fury against the bergs, which were observed at a distance ...

— Archibald Hughson - An Arctic Story • W.H.G. Kingston

... white cascades, and enduring no boat upon its waters until half its course was run. But here it challenged man to essay a fall; for where it burst its way over rocky slopes were channels jeopardous and hardly navigable, sequences of foaming rapids, races of wild water swirling round opposing boulders, and careering indignant of restraint between long walls of beetling rock. Here when the sun had gone down we would embark with a crew of lithe brown men ...

— Apologia Diffidentis • W. Compton Leith

... over the sea, and the waters were drawing him down. The immense, green waves that rolled along through the sea fog, carrying the moon's face on their crests, foaming and gurgling as they went, were already leaping up to seize him by the feet and drag ...

— Jimbo - A Fantasy • Algernon Blackwood

... the digestive organs is very seriously impaired. The animal eats voraciously, for a time, but stops suddenly and trembles; the countenance assumes a peculiarly haggard appearance; there is a wild expression of the eye; a foaming at the mouth; a tendency to pitch forward, and at times a falling head-foremost to the ground. Occasionally, the symptoms are very active, speedily terminating in death. There are few diseases of a constitutional character in which ...

— Cattle and Their Diseases • Robert Jennings

... craft capsized, and its occupants were plunged into the foaming, churning water. Leroy made a frantic grasp at his companion's dress, but missed it. A second later, he saw, in the midst of the foam, her slight form being carried down to the weir. With a cry of horror he struck out, in ...

— Adrien Leroy • Charles Garvice

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