Foaming
[fom]
Definition
(adj.) producing or covered with lathery sweat or saliva from exhaustion or disease; 'the rabid animal's frothing mouth' .
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Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Foam
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Examples
- As the brutes, growling and foaming, rushed upon the almost defenseless women I turned my head that I might not see the horrid sight. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- Right on behind, eight or ten of them, hot with brandy, swearing and foaming like so many wolves. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- It was not long ere he found him, foaming with indignation at a repulse he had anew sustained from the fair Jewess. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- The other males scattered in all directions, but not before the infuriated brute had felt the vertebra of one snap between his great, foaming jaws. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- There he perched, hurling taunts and insults at the raging, foaming beast fifty feet below him. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- In their present humour, on their present errand, a strong and foaming channel would have been a barrier to neither. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- He advanced towards Oliver, as if with the intention of aiming a blow at him, but fell violently on the ground: writhing and foaming, in a fit. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- At last he gave it up, and turned, foaming with rage and hatred, into the jungle. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
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