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ferment

verb
/fəˈmɛnt/UK/fɚˈmɛnt/US/ˈfɜː.mɛnt/UK/ˈfɚ.mɛnt/US

Etymology

From Middle English ferment, from Middle French ferment, from Latin fermentāre (“to leaven, ferment”), from fermentum (“substance causing fermentation”), possibly from contraction of *fervimentum, from fervēre. See also fervent.

  1. derived from fermentō
  2. derived from ferment
  3. inherited from ferment

Definitions

  1. To react, using fermentation

    To react, using fermentation; especially to produce alcohol by aging or by allowing yeast to act on sugars; to brew.

  2. To stir up, agitate, cause unrest or excitement in.

    • Ye vigorous swains! while youth ferments your blood.
    • Pleas'd have I wander'd thro' your rough domain; / Trod the pure virgin-ſnows, myſelf as pure; / Heard the winds roar, and the big torrent burſt; / Or ſeen the deep fermenting tempeſt brew'd, / In the grim evening ſky.

  3. Something, such as a yeast or barm, that causes fermentation.

  4. ›+ 3 more definitions

    1. A state of agitation or of turbulent change.

      • Subdue and cool the ferment of desire.
      • 14 November, 1770, Junius, letter to the Right Honourable Lord Mansfield The nation is in a ferment.

    2. A gentle internal motion of the constituent parts of a fluid

      A gentle internal motion of the constituent parts of a fluid; fermentation.

      • A Rage of Pleaſure madden'd every Breaſt, / Down to the loweſt Lees the Ferment ran: [...]

    3. A catalyst.

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Derived

apoferment, coferment, fermentability, fermentable, fermental, fermentarian, fermentate, fermentative, fermenter, fermentic, fermentome, fermentor, lactoferment, nonfermenting, overferment, preferment, referment, re-ferment, underferment, unfermenting

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at ferment. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at ferment. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at ferment

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA