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   What does foment mean?

   • The earliest documented English uses of foment appear in medical texts offering advice on how to soothe various aches and pains by the application of moist heat. In time, the idea of applying heat became a metaphor for stimulating or rousing to action. Foment then started being used in political contexts to mean "to stir up" or "to call to action."

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   Where does the word foment come from?

   • It's less so if you know that foment traces to the Latin verb fovēre, which means "to heat or warm" or "to soothe." The earliest documented English uses of foment appear in medical texts offering advice on how to soothe various aches and pains by the application of moist heat.

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   What does fomenter mean?

   • 1. To arouse or incite (trouble, for example). 2. To treat (the skin, for example) by fomentation. [Middle English fomenten, to apply warm liquids to the skin, from Old French fomenter, from Late Latin fōmentāre, from Latin fōmentum, poultice, from fovēre, to warm; see dheg w h- in Indo-European roots.] fo·ment′er n.

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   What does foment a revolution mean?

   • Stand outside the school cafeteria passing out flyers with nutritional details on school food, and you may foment a revolution — foment means stirring up something undesirable, such as trouble. You would never say, "Hooray, we fomented a revolution." Instead you'd say, "Those good for nothing scalawags fomented the rebellion."

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   What does ferment mean?

   • Ferment can mean "to stir up" in a good way — a football game can ferment excitement in a town, or foment trouble through traffic tie-ups and litter. "Foment."

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   What does fomenting violence mean?

   • If someone or something foments trouble or violent opposition, they cause it to develop. They accused strike leaders of fomenting violence. [VERB noun] Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner’s Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers 1.

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   The meaning of FOMENT is to promote the growth or development of : rouse, incite. How to use foment in a sentence. Did you know? Synonym Discussion of Foment.

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   to cause trouble to develop: The song was banned on the grounds that it might foment racial tension. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Causing things to happen. activate. activation. actuation. agent. attribute something to someone phrasal verb. hyperstimulate. hyperstimulation. implementation. in. launch pad.

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   Define foment. foment synonyms, foment pronunciation, foment translation, English dictionary definition of foment. incite; instigate rebellion: to foment a riot. Not to be confused with: ferment – agitation; unrest; excitement: The city was in the grip of political...

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   Foment definition: to instigate or foster (discord, rebellion, etc.); promote the growth or development of. See examples of FOMENT used in a sentence.

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   1. to treat with warm water, medicated lotions, etc. 2. to stir up (trouble); instigate; incite. to foment a riot.

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   to cause something bad or illegal to develop: to foment revolution. (Definition of foment from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press) Examples of foment. foment. Precisely what effect, and how this might impede or foment internal opposition to the nuclear program, is not yet clear.

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   /ˈfʌʊmɪnt/ IPA guide. Other forms: fomented; fomenting; foments. Stand outside the school cafeteria passing out flyers with nutritional details on school food, and you may foment a revolution — foment means stirring up something undesirable, such as trouble. You would never say, "Hooray, we fomented a revolution."