Definitions
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- adj. In a foaming state.
- adv. In a foaming state.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- adv. In a foaming state.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- In a state of foam; foaming: as, the water was all afoam.
Etymologies
Examples
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You reach it from Camden Road up a slanting lane opposite the excellent Coffee@Camden caff, the verge afoam with cow parsley in late spring.
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The short grass of the cliffs, too, thou didst love, where thou wouldst lie, and watch, with the tunny watcher till the deep blue sea was broken by the burnished sides of the tunny shoal, and afoam with their gambols in the brine.
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Though the horse was all afoam with sweat, showing that it had been ridden far and fast; it did not pant or show a sign of weariness.
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Wars, grim wars I discern, and Tiber afoam with streams of blood.
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Orchards of old Devon, all afoam with snowy bloom?
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Going outside with an escort, raving with lips all afoam;
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For they're wild as mountain eagles and their sides are all afoam;
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Of the bay, with their jagged peaks afoam; and the Captain thought
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When I reached the wharf, with my horse all afoam, there was indeed the Golden Horn down the river, coming in.
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The Wanderer watched its fall, when, lo! the water where the dead swan fell splashed up as red as blood and all afoam!
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