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Foment

Foment Meaning & Definition
Foment Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Foment?

[v] bathe with warm water or medicated lotions; "His legs should be fomented"
[v] try to stir up public opinion

Synonyms | Synonyms for Foment: agitate | stir up

Related Terms | Find terms related to Foment: abate | abet | advance | agitate | agitation | allay | alleviate | anesthetize | annoy | appease | arouse | assuage | awake | awaken | benumb | blow the coals | blow up | bluster | bobbery | boil | boiling | brouhaha | bustle | call forth | call up | chafe | churn | commotion | conturbation | cook | cultivate | cushion | deaden | deaden the pain | diminish | discomposure | disorder | disquiet | disquietude | disturbance | dull | ease | ease matters | ebullition | egg on | electric-heat | embroilment | encourage | enkindle | enrage | excite | excitement | fan | fan the fire | fan the flame | feed the fire | ferment | fermentation | fever | feverishness | fidgets | fire | fire up | flame | flap | flurry | fluster | flutteration | forward | foster | frenzy | fume | further | fuss | galvanize | gas-heat | give relief | goad | heat | heat up | hot | hot up | hot-air-heat | hot-water-heat | hubbub | hurly-burly | impassion | incense | incite | inflame | infuriate | initiate | inquietude | inspire | instigate | jitters | jumpiness | key up | kindle | lather up | lay | lessen | light the fuse | light up | lull | madden | maelstrom | malaise | mitigate | moil | mollify | motivate | move | mull | nerviness | nervosity | nervousness | nettle | numb | nurse | nurture | overexcite | overheat | pad | palliate | perturbation | pique | poultice | pour balm into | pour oil on | preheat | promote | prompt | provoke | put up to | raise | rally | recook | reduce | reheat | relieve | restlessness | roil | rouse | rout | row | salve | seethe | seething | set | set astir | set fire to | set on | set on fire | sic on | slacken | slake | soften | soothe | spur | start | steam | steam up | stimulate | stir | stir the blood | stir the embers | stir the feelings | stir up | stoke up | stupe | subdue | summon up | superheat | swirl | tepefy | tickle | to-do | trepidation | trepidity | tumult | tumultuation | turbidity | turbulence | turmoil | turn on | twitter | unease | unrest | upset | urge | wake | wake up | waken | warm | warm over | warm the blood | warm up | whet | whip up | work into | work up

See Also | bath | bathe | provoke | rumpus | stimulate

Foment In Webster's Dictionary

\Fo*ment"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Fomented}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Fomenting}.] [F. fomenter, fr. L. fomentare, fr. fomentum (for fovimentum) a warm application or lotion, fr. fovere to warm or keep warm; perh. akin to Gr. ? to roast, and E. bake.] 1. To apply a warm lotion to; to bathe with a cloth or sponge wet with warm water or medicated liquid. 2. To cherish with heat; to foster. [Obs.] Which these soft fires . . . foment and warm. --Milton. 3. To nurse to life or activity; to cherish and promote by excitements; to encourage; to abet; to instigate; -- used often in a bad sense; as, to foment ill humors. --Locke. But quench the choler you foment in vain. --Dryden. Exciting and fomenting a religious rebellion. --Southey.
\Fo"ment\, n. 1. Fomentation. 2. State of excitation; -- perh. confused with ferment. He came in no conciliatory mood, and the foment was kept up. --Julian Ralph.

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