Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In a state of foam; foaming: as, the water was all afoam.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adverb In a foaming state.

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  • adjective In a foaming state.
  • adverb In a foaming state.

Etymologies

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a- +‎ foam

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Examples

  • 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.

    Britain's best views: Bath 2011

  • 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.

    Letters to Dead Authors 2006

  • Wars, grim wars I discern, and Tiber afoam with streams of blood.

    The Aeneid of Virgil 70 BC-19 BC Virgil

  • 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.

    Wild Bill's Last Trail Ned Buntline

  • Orchards of old Devon, all afoam with snowy bloom?

    Spun-Yarn and Spindrift Norah Mary 1918

  • Going outside with an escort, raving with lips all afoam;

    Songs of a Sourdough 1916

  • For they're wild as mountain eagles and their sides are all afoam;

    Rio Grande's Last Race & Other Verses 1902

  • When I reached the wharf, with my horse all afoam, there was indeed the Golden Horn down the river, coming in.

    The Heart's Highway: A Romance of Virginia in the Seventeenth Century 1900

  • Of the bay, with their jagged peaks afoam; and the Captain thought

    The Poems of Henry Van Dyke Henry Van Dyke 1892

  • When I reached the wharf, with my horse all afoam, there was indeed the Golden Horn down the river, coming in.

    The Heart's Highway Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman 1891

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