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stoom

stoom is the alternative form of stum.

Meaning of stum

Verb

stum (third-person singular simple present stums, present participle stumming, simple past and past participle stummed)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To ferment.
  2. (obsolete, transitive) To renew (wine etc.) by mixing must with it and raising a new fermentation.
    • We stum our crude wines […]to renew their spirits.1696, John Floyer, The praeternatural State of animal Hurnours described by their sensible Qualities
  3. (obsolete, transitive) To fume, as a cask of liquor, with burning sulphur.
    • Since I have taken this method with cyder, it has proved more like wine than common drink, but then I racked it off a second and a third time, as soon as it appeared fine, and then stummed the cask that received it the lasttime […]1789, “Cultivation of the Vine”, in Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, volume 1

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Forms of stoom

third-person singular presentstooms
present participlestooming
past participlestoomed
paststoomed

Questions about stoom

What is stoom the alternative form of?
Stoom is the alternative form of stum.

Words near stoom in the dictionary

  1. stoolmaking
  2. stools
  3. stools of easement
  4. stools of repentance
  5. stooly
  6. stoom
  7. stoomed
  8. stooming
  9. stooms
  10. stooop
  11. stoop

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Adapted from Wiktionary: stoom (page history and authors); stum (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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