ferment

Part of speech: verb

To produce fermentation in; agitate.

Part of speech: verb

To undergo fermentation; be in agitation.

Part of speech: noun

Fermentabillty.

Part of speech: adjective

Fermentable.

Part of speech: adjective

Fermentible.

Part of speech: noun

A substance productive of fermentation.

Part of speech: noun

Excitement or agitation.

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Usage examples "ferment":

  1. In the township of Dummer, the settlers boil the tops, and add hops to the liquor, which they ferment, and from which they obtain excellent beer. - "Roughing it in the Bush", Susanna Moodie.
  2. Constantinople was in a ferment. - "Dreamers of the Ghetto", I. Zangwill.
  3. Even yet the principle of Darwin is but a spreading ferment in many spheres of human thought in which it is destined to bring the same revolution that it has worked in the sciences of organic life. - "The Story of the Mind", James Mark Baldwin.