Usually means: Remove froth or foam from.
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  1. despumate: Merriam-Webster
  2. despumate: Collins English Dictionary
  3. despumate: Wordnik
  4. despumate: Wiktionary
  5. despumate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  6. despumate: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  7. Despumate: Dictionary.com
  8. Despumate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  9. despumate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  10. Despumate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. despumate: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  12. despumate: FreeDictionary.org
  13. despumate: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  14. despumate: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Definitions from Wiktionary (despumate)

▸ verb:  To throw off impurities in spume; to work off in foam or scum; to foam.

Similar:
despume, defoam, unfoam, scum, descum, sponge out, disponge, skim, deslime, defluff, more...

Opposite:
clarify, purify, refine, clean, filter

Types:
centrifuge, gravity, heat, membrane press, vacuum pan, more...

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Similar:
despume, defoam, unfoam, scum, descum, sponge out, disponge, skim, deslime, defluff, more...

Opposite:
clarify, purify, refine, clean, filter

Types:
centrifuge, gravity, heat, membrane press, vacuum pan, more...



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