Synonyms of spume

spume

noun

ˈspyüm 

as in foam

a light mass of fine bubbles formed in or on a liquid

spume floating on the ocean

Synonyms & Similar Words

• foam
• surf
• froth
• suds
• lather
• head
• spray
• mist
• mousse
• spindrift
• scum

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of spume

But for all those currents to crash together in a great spume of music and emotion on December 18, 1962, artists and audiences required a special room, the basic apparatus of togetherness in Europe’s musical tradition. — Justin Davidson, Curbed, 16 Oct. 2024

The rasp, first pressed into the ice block, tense as a spring, suddenly surfs across the berg, scraping up a spume of glittering white snow as stray flecks flutter into the air. — Ethan Pan, Outside Online, 23 May 2024

The water’s edge was frothed into a pink spume - evidence, Kolya speculated, that the artemia were spawning. — Henry Wismayer, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Aug. 2022

The water’s edge was frothed into a pink spume — evidence, Kolya speculated, that the artemia were spawning. — Henry Wismayer, Washington Post, 29 Aug. 2022

Standing on these beaches creates a sense of natural infinity – of white sand, of frothy spume, of blue-green water. — Angelina Villa-Clarke, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2021

In the intervening seven decades, the event has developed from a small sports-car show and race into a weeklong car-and-lifestyle bacchanal that blankets the Monterey Peninsula in plumes of blue smoke and champagne spume. — Brett Berk, Car and Driver, 2 Mar. 2018

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