Ferment

Quick meaning: Ferment is a verb meaning To react, using fermentation; especially to produce alcohol by aging or by allowing yeast to act on sugars; to brew.

Meaning

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

More Meanings

1. To stir up, agitate, cause unrest or excitement in.
2. Something, such as a yeast or barm, that causes fermentation.
3. A state of agitation or of turbulent change.
4. A gentle internal motion of the constituent parts of a fluid; fermentation.
5. A catalyst.

Example Sentences

Subdue and cool the ferment of desire.

Ye vigorous swains! while youth ferments your blood.

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

14 November, 1770, Junius, letter to the Right Honourable Lord Mansfield The nation is in a ferment.

Word Forms

• ferments
• fermenting
• fermented

Synonyms for ferment

Depending on context, synonyms include yeast, agitation, sour, turn, unrest, fermentation.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include zymosis, fermentation, zymolysis, sour, turn, unrest.

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