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Spumed vs Stumed - What's the difference?

spumed | stumed |

As verbs the difference between spumed and stumed

is that spumed is (spume) while stumed is (stum).

spumed

English

Verb

(head)
  • (spume)
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    spume

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • Foam or froth of liquid, particularly that of sea water.
  • * (John Milton) (1608-1674)
  • Materials dark and crude, / Of spiritous and fiery spume .
  • * {{quote-book, year=1892, author=(James Yoxall)
  • , chapter=5, title= The Lonely Pyramid , passage=The desert storm was riding in its strength; the travellers lay beneath the mastery of the fell simoom.
  • * 1906 , (Jack London), , part I, ch I,
  • Their breath froze in the air as it left their mouths, spouting forth in spumes of vapour that settled upon the hair of their bodies and formed into crystals of frost.

    Derived terms

    * (l) * (l)

    Verb

    (spum)
  • To froth.
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    stumed

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (stum)

  • stum

    English

    Noun

  • Unfermented grape juice; must.
  • * Ben Jonson
  • Let our wines, without mixture of stum , be all fine.
  • * Dryden
  • And with thy stum ferment their fainting cause.
  • Wine revived by new fermentation, resulting from the admixture of must.
  • * {{quote-book
  • , year=1664 , year_published=1835 , author= , title=Hudibras; with notes by T. R. Nash, Volume 1 , page=265 , section=Part II, Canto 1 , pageurl=https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=PsQf26jDVSkC&pg=PA265 , passage=Drink ev'ry letter on't in stum ,
    And make it brisk champaign become.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • to ferment
  • to renew (wine etc.) by mixing must with it and raising a new fermentation
  • We stum our wines to renew their spirits. — Floyer.

    References

    (Webster 1913)

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