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foam
1. n. A substance composed of a large collection of bubbles or their solidified remains.
He doesn't like so much foam in his beer.
2. n. A substance formed by trapping pockets of gas in a liquid or solid.
A foam mat can soften a hard seat.
3. n. (by extension) Sea foam; (figuratively, poetic) the sea.
He is in Europe, across the foam.
4. n. Fury.
5. v. (intransitive) To form or emit foam.
6. v. (intransitive) To spew saliva as foam, to foam at the mouth.

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The first morning after his marriage with another your heart will break, and you will turn into foam of the sea.  Poetry must be new as foam, and as old as the rock.  It's not a toothpaste, it's a face-cleansing foam!

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