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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of foam.

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Examples

  • Specifically the realm of 'foamed' metals forged in zero gee at high Gauss…

    NASA Administrator Orders Study of Heavy Lift Alternatives | Universe Today 2009

  • The big ones are power satellites (beaming zero-carbon-footprint energy to earth), zero-G industrial processes (things that can't be cheaply made in a gravity field, such as foamed steel), and tourism (I'm looking forward to Disneymoon, and that first Hyatt with an out-of-this-world view).

    Near-future Space Industries Stephen D. Covey 2008

  • Liquid rock decompresses and explodes from the volcano's mouth, producing a mixture of 'foamed' glass and micro - and mini-crystals.

    Science @ NASA 2009

  • Liquid rock decompresses and explodes from the volcano's mouth, producing a mixture of 'foamed' glass and micro - and mini-crystals.

    YubaNet.com 2009

  • Sarit handed her a bottle of peroxide, and Cara poured it over her knee, watching as it foamed white.

    Choker Elizabeth Woods 2011

  • Sarit handed her a bottle of peroxide, and Cara poured it over her knee, watching as it foamed white.

    Choker Elizabeth Woods 2011

  • Constantly under pressure, Cutler could only debate taking the sack or forcing bad throws, both of which were capitalized on by a Skins unit that foamed at the mouth.

    By any means necessary - Redskins 17 Bears 14 Box Seats blogger 2010

  • Elsinore, one moment overtoppling her slender frailness, the next moment splashing a hundred tons of water on her deck and flinging her skyward as they passed beneath and foamed and crested from sight in the murky gray to leeward.

    CHAPTER XXXIV 2010

  • The bartender of The White Horse pub plunked another pint of Guinness onto the bar, and Elaine watched as the swirling, dark liquid foamed over the rim of the glass.

    Klondike Kelli Trapnell 2011

  • McSweeny's Books Theodore Pull In his shows, Theodore Pull feigned a trance and foamed at the mouth to add drama.

    Conjurers, Con Men & Other Strange Celebrities 2011

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