Ferment meaning

fûr'mĕnt'
The definition of ferment is to excite, or to have a chemical breakdown of a substance using bacteria, yeast or enzymes.

When you cause a protesting crowd to get even madder then they already are, this is an example of when you ferment.

When you use yeast to make bread dough rise, this is an example of when you ferment.

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Ferment is defined as agitation and excitement.

When a group of protesters gradually becomes more and more angry about their cause, this is an example of ferment.

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Something, such as a yeast, bacterium, mold, or enzyme, that causes fermentation.
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Fermentation.
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A state of agitation or of turbulent change or development.
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An agent that precipitates or is capable of precipitating such a state; a catalyst.
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To produce by or as if by fermentation.
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To cause to undergo fermentation.
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To make turbulent; excite or agitate.
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To undergo fermentation.
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To be in an excited or agitated state; seethe.
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A substance or organism causing fermentation, as yeast, bacteria, enzymes, etc.
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A state of excitement or agitation.
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To cause fermentation in.
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To excite; agitate.
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To be in the process of fermentation.
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To be excited or agitated; seethe.
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An agent, such as an enzyme, bacterium, or fungus, that brings about fermentation.
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Fermentation.
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To undergo or cause to undergo fermentation.

Cabbage that has fermented; yeasts that ferment sugars.

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To react, using fermentation; especially to produce alcohol by aging or by allowing yeast to act on sugars; to brew.
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To stir up, agitate, cause unrest or excitement in.
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Something, such as a yeast or barm, that causes fermentation.
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A state of agitation or of turbulent change.
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A gentle internal motion of the constituent parts of a fluid; fermentation.
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Origin of ferment

From Middle French ferment, from Latin fermentare (“to leaven, ferment”), from fermentum (“substance causing fermentation”), from fervere (“to boil, seethe”). See also fervent.

Sentence Examples

  • An immense ferment took place.

  • For a time there was considerable ferment in Egypt.

  • Saccharomyces Marxianus will not hydrolyse maltose, but it does attack cane sugar and ferment the products of hydrolysis.

  • This appointment, at a moment when Austria-Hungary was again contemplating war with Serbia, naturally increased the ferment, and on Aug.

  • The second half of the 16th century was a period of ferment and anarchy, marked by the arrival of the Portuguese and the rise of some remarkable adventurers, one of whom, Hideyoshi, conquered Korea and apparently meditated the invasion of China.

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