foment
Pronunciation Verb
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Pronunciation Verb
foment (foments, present participle fomenting; past and past participle fomented)
- To incite or cause troublesome acts; to encourage; to instigate.
- He was arrested for fomenting a riot; after all, it's bad enough being in a riot but starting one is much worse.
- Foreign governments have tried to foment unrest.
- (medicine) To apply a poultice to; to bathe with a cloth or sponge.
- Synonyms: beath
- 1904, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Abbey Grange, Norton (2005), page 1178,
- The maid had entered with us, and began once more to foment the bruise upon her mistress's brow.
- French: fomenter
- German: fördern
- Italian: fomentare
- Portuguese: fomentar
- Russian: провоци́ровать
- Spanish: fomentar
- Russian: класть примо́чки и́ли припа́рки
- Spanish: fomentar
foment (plural foments)
- Fomentation.
- He came in no conciliatory mood, and the foment was kept up.
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