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   What does fomenting mean?

   • These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. FOMENTING definition: 1. present participle of foment 2. to cause trouble to develop: .

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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 is another word for foment?

   • Another words for foment include provoke, incite, instigate, excite, stimulate, arouse, inspire, rouse, and kindle. Find more similar words at wordhippo.com!

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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 is the difference between ABET and foment?

   • abet implies both assisting and encouraging. foment implies persistence in goading. He was accused of fomenting violence. John Adams's wife, Abigail, told him that if women were not remembered by the new American government, they would “foment a Rebellion and will not hold ourselves bound by any Laws in which we have no voice or Representation”.

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   The meaning of FOMENT is to promote the growth or development of : rouse, incite. ... fomenting rebellion. Examples of foment in a Sentence. He was accused of ...

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   FOMENTING definition: 1. present participle of foment 2. to cause trouble to develop: . Learn more.

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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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   2 meanings: 1. to encourage or instigate (trouble, discord, etc); stir up 2. medicine to apply heat and moisture to (a part of.... Click for more definitions.

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   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.