Thesaurus results for FOAMED

foamed

verb

past tense of foam

as in steamed

to be excited or emotionally stirred up with anger the old man foamed and raged when they told him he would have to give up the farm

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Recent Examples of foamed The Timberwolves foamed at the mouth, eager to back up Jaden McDaniels’ trash talk about Denver’s defense from three days earlier. — Bennett Durando, Denver Post, 24 Apr. 2026 With her eyes closed and her palms turned upward, Scherzinger appeared to be in total peace as the ocean tide gently foamed around her feet. — Danielle Minnetian, FOXNews.com, 22 Apr. 2026

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Zucchini With its high water content, zucchini can turn mushy and even fall apart when steamed.

— Katie Rosenhouse, Southern Living, 9 Sep. 2026
Their crabs are steamed, frozen and packed into boxes to be shipped to Sri Lanka, where workers remove the meat by hand.

— ABC News, ABC News, 2 Sep. 2026

Definition of steamed

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The flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv made an emergency landing in Saudi Arabia on Wednesday, after passengers stormed the cockpit and wrenched back controlfrom the attacker, who Israeli officials suspect was trying to crash the plane.

— Nicholas Wu, semafor.com, 2 Oct. 2026
Zverev served for the match in the second set but double-faulted to hand De Minaur a break and the Australian stormed back into it.

— ABC News, ABC News, 26 Sep. 2026

Definition of stormed

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Tension in France French Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu addressed the nation on Wednesday night, to try and calm the student protests that have raged for more than two weeks.

— Leonie Kidd, CNBC, 8 Oct. 2026
As protests raged at more than 1,200 French high schools this week, police responded with tear gas and rubber bullets in some cases.

— Reuters, NBC news, 3 Oct. 2026

Definition of raged

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The pentobarbital didn’t kill her, but her lawyers said her arms were burned and blistered from the caustic drugs.

— Jeffrey Collins, Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2026
This made the level of destruction Turner witnessed in 2017 even more shocking — especially as the area had burned before without this level of loss.

— Taylor Romine, CNN Money, 4 Oct. 2026

Definition of burned

Verb

In other Asian Games events like hockey, players from both countries did embrace each other and shook hands with each other after India beat Pakistan in the semifinal.

— ABC News, ABC News, 3 Oct. 2026
Bottle tops popped, can tabs cracked, and cocktail shakers shook all day Thursday at the Aftershock music festival at Sacramento’s Discovery Park.

— Sacbee.com, Sacbee.com, 3 Oct. 2026

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