schuimen

== Dutch == === Etymology === From Middle Dutch schumen, from Old Dutch *scūmen, *skūmen, from Proto-West Germanic *skūmijan (“to foam, froth”), from Proto-West Germanic *skūm (“foam”). Equivalent to schuim (“foam”) +‎ -en. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈsxœy̯.mə(n)/ Hyphenation: schui‧men Rhymes: -œy̯mən === Verb === schuimen (intransitive) to foam, to produce foam (intransitive, transitive) to remove foam (intransitive, transitive, figuratively) to remove impurities from something (intransitive, transitive, dated) to plunder, to rob 1667, Gillis Joosten Saagman, De Groote Spaenſche Tiranye of het Cleine Martelaers-Boeck, publ. Gillis Joosten Saagman, 2. 1844, J. Krabbendam Rz., Claes Compaen, of Schetsen uit het leven van een Hollandschen Zeerover, volume 1, publ. C. Bakker Bz., 154. (intransitive, transitive, uncommon) to rummage, to scour (intransitive, by extension) to wander, to roam [with over ‘over something’] 2005, Jaap ter Haar, Geschiedenis van de Lage Landen. Op de drempel van een nieuwe tijd, Ten Have, reprint, original from 1971. ==== Conjugation ==== ==== Derived terms ====